APPSC Endowments Recruitment 2026: Eleven Commissioner Posts for Practising Advocates

Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) | Brief Notification 29/2026 dated 13 October 2026 | A.P. Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Service.

The defining feature of this recruitment is court practice, not merely possession of a degree. APPSC has announced six Deputy Commissioner of Endowments posts and five Assistant Commissioner of Endowments posts. Although the roles belong to the same service and share a 450-mark law-oriented recruitment examination, their qualifying years and qualifying courts are not interchangeable. Deputy Commissioner accepts five years' practice in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh or the Supreme Court of India; Assistant Commissioner expressly asks for at least three years as an advocate of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. This distinction matters before an applicant chooses the post.

📌 At a glance: dates, career grade and selection

Apply online: 2 November to 22 November 2026, up to 11:59 PM, through the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission. The stated vacancy figures are provisional and may change after confirmation from the department. These are pay scales, not guaranteed take-home salaries or fixed consolidated payments.

📊 Vacancy share: 11 posts across two Commissioner grades

🥧 APPSC Endowments 2026 post share

Of the eleven vacancies, Deputy Commissioner accounts for six and Assistant Commissioner for five. Community-wise and women-wise seat allotment is not published in the supplied 10-page brief; no category quotas can be inferred from the total. For this reason the chart is about the two separate grades, not an invented reservation distribution.

📊 Entry pay-scale comparison for the two grades

The Deputy Commissioner's pay-scale entry is ₹16,920 higher than the Assistant Commissioner's. At the upper end of the respective published scales, the figures are ₹1,54,980 and ₹1,37,220. The upper bounds describe the range of the grade; they do not mean a newly appointed candidate receives the maximum. Separate allowances and deductions are not itemised in this brief.

⚖️ Which advocate is eligible for which post?

Deputy Commissioner — six positions. The stated professional qualification is at least five years of practice as an advocate in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh or the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court route is expressly present in this line. It would be incorrect to reject that route by applying the Assistant Commissioner's narrower court wording to both grades.

Assistant Commissioner — five positions. The stated professional qualification is not less than three years as an advocate of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. The brief does not name Supreme Court-only practice as a standalone alternative for this post. An applicant with mixed practice history must follow the controlling official eligibility clarification rather than assume that any aggregate practice period satisfies this separate condition.

The notified age band is 28–44 years as on 1 July 2026, for both grades. The brief does not itemise caste/category age concessions or other service-rule relaxations. No percentage, practice-credit formula or special exemption has been assumed.

Special service eligibility: The notice cites Rule 13 of the Special Service Rules under G.O.Ms.No.245, Revenue (Endowments-I), dated 8 May 2002. It requires applicants to profess the Hindu religion and says a holder of the post ceases to hold it upon ceasing to profess that religion. This is a specifically notified condition attached to these Endowments Service offices. The requirement should be read with the applicable service rules and any later authoritative clarification.

Advocate-practice documents: what to examine before applying

The brief prescribes the practice period and court, but does not list an exhaustive documentary checklist. Applicants should therefore check that their own Bar-enrolment/practice history and any court-related professional records can establish the required court and period, and consult the final detailed notification for precisely accepted documentary proof. It would be premature to label an affidavit, court certificate or Bar Association letter as an unconditionally mandatory prescribed form without an official instruction stating so. Do not confuse years elapsed since a degree with years of qualifying High Court/Supreme Court practice.

🏛️ What makes Endowments Service distinct?

This recruitment concerns the statutory administration of charitable and Hindu religious institutions in Andhra Pradesh. The prescribed examination makes the legal focus unusually clear: it combines Hindu personal law with the Andhra Pradesh Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Act, 1987 (Act 30 of 1987). The syllabus specifically draws attention to a separate legislative chapter concerning Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams.

From a candidate's standpoint, the difficult preparation choice is not whether to study general law or the state's temple administration framework: both are examined. A solid answer on ancient sources of Hindu law does not replace knowledge of the Endowments Act; similarly, understanding a statutory institution cannot substitute for Hindu succession, family property or marriage-law principles. The advertisement does not publish a role-wise list of day-to-day duties, reporting powers or posting locations. Candidates should therefore avoid assuming a particular district assignment or administrative power merely from the title.

📝 Written examination: three papers, 450 marks

The annexure prescribes a single-level online Computer Based Recruitment Test (CBRT); there is no separate Screening Test, irrespective of applicant volume. All three subjects are at the degree standard:

Wrong answers attract a deduction of one-third of the marks allotted to that question; each listed written question is worth one mark, so the penalty is ⅓ mark per incorrect answer. A single-level examination is not the same thing as a single paper: three papers are required. If held in more than one session, the Commission may normalise marks where applicable; this is a conditional provision, not an announcement of multiple shifts.

The equal 150-mark allocation gives two-thirds of the written marks to the two law-specific papers together (300/450). For an advocate who has not recently revised personal law or the Endowments Act, relying on professional court practice alone would leave an unusually large portion of the test uncovered.

📚 Official Paper-I: Andhra Pradesh-focused General Studies

The ten prescribed domains are current international/national/AP issues; general science and contemporary technology; Indian history and the freedom movement with an Andhra Pradesh emphasis; Indian/AP geography; polity, governance and e-governance; economy and planning; sustainable development and environment; disaster management including remote sensing/GIS; logic and analytical reasoning; and data interpretation with tabulation, charts, mean, median, mode and variance. AP-specific current affairs are expressly included, rather than optional background reading.

⚖️ Official Paper-II: Hindu Law — the legal structure

The syllabus moves from sources and schools to modern family statutes. The uploaded syllabus contains a year typo for the Hindu Succession Act; the legislation is the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, as shown by India Code. Ancient sources cover Shruti, Smritis, Mimamsa, digests, commentaries, custom, and modern sources including precedent and legislation. The Mitakshara and Dayabhaga systems, joint-family property, coparcenary, alienation, partition and stridhan connect these legal traditions with property relationships. Modern law includes the Hindu Marriage Act, succession, guardianship, adoption and maintenance, alongside dowry law and the ancient Hindu-law treatment of endowments. The annexure names these areas; it does not allocate fixed numbers of questions to each subtopic.

🛕 Official Paper-III: A.P. Hindu Religious Endowments Act

The Paper-III syllabus points to Act 30 of 1987 and describes the act's 15 chapters and 162 sections, with a dedicated chapter concerning Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams. This is the examination's most specialised statutory paper. Work from the operative act and amendments relevant to the examination, distinguishing the general provisions for charitable/religious institutions from the specially identified TTD chapter. The brief does not announce a chapter-wise mark quota or specify that any one section alone will dominate the paper.

💻 Computer Proficiency Test — 100 marks, 60 minutes

The supplied annexure also contains a practical computer test covering computer fundamentals, operating systems, email/internet, word processing, spreadsheet calculations and charts, and presentations. Its published qualifying thresholds are 30 for SC/ST/PBD, 35 for BC and 40 for OC out of 100. These are CPT minimum qualifying marks, not vacancy counts and not written-examination cutoffs. The distinct detailed CPT page explains the 20/25/15/20/20 evaluation components.

The brief does not announce the date of the written examination, the CPT, hall-ticket issue, final key, results or document verification. The presence of a scheme does not mean any of these later selection notices have already been published.

✅ Applying online without avoidable mistakes

1. Open the official Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission website and identify Notification 29/2026 under the Endowments Service recruitment.
2. Compare your qualifying court of practice, practice duration, age on 1 July 2026 and the special service condition with the official text before choosing Deputy Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, or any post preferences made available on the application form.
3. Follow the Commission's online application instructions and submit between 2 November and 22 November 2026, up to 11:59 PM. Applications sent through any other mode are explicitly not accepted.
4. Keep evidence of successful submission and consult the controlling detailed notification before relying on any claimed fee exemption, roster reservation, concession or category certificate. The 10-page brief does not state an application-fee amount or category-wise breakup.
5. Check the Commission's announcements for any subsequently issued detailed eligibility notice, hall ticket, examination date, provisional key, objection procedure, result or appointment instructions.

Important timing distinction: The brief is dated 13 October 2026 and says a detailed notification is expected on or before 2 November 2026. That expected date is not itself proof the full notice was published; the candidate must rely on an actually issued APPSC detailed notice for additional binding conditions. Do not confuse this 29/2026 recruitment with Executive Officer Grade-III Notification 23/2026, which is a separate service/post.

Important dates and status

Official information: APPSC recruitment announcements · APPSC application website. The notification and any future official corrigenda control where later published.