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Maharashtra Cabinet Approves 15,000-Post Police Recruitment Drive

The drive will wrap up within six months under district-level OMR exams overseen by the ADG (Training), featuring a one-time age relaxation.

Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday approved the recruitment of 15,000 police personnel in the state.
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Overview

  • Cabinet cleared 15,000 vacancies comprising 10,908 constables, 234 driver-constables, 2,393 armed constables, 25 bandsmen and 554 jail constables.
  • Additional Director General of Police (Training and Special Units) has been empowered to manage district-level OMR written exams, application scrutiny and physical tests.
  • One-time age relaxation allows candidates who exceeded the prescribed limits in 2022 and 2023 to participate in this recruitment cycle.
  • Officials aim to complete the hiring within six months and project an annual salary bill of about ₹500 crore for the new personnel.
  • The package also raised fair-price shop margins by ₹20 per quintal, approved a ₹17.97 crore VGF subsidy for the Solapur–Pune–Mumbai air route and relaxed loan-guarantor norms.