SARTHI Pune Executive Officer Recruitment 2026 — Three Contractual Assignments for Retired Gazetted Officers
Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Research, Training and Human Development Institute (SARTHI), Pune — Government of Maharashtra autonomous institute | Notice published 6 November 2026
SARTHI has called for applications from retired Maharashtra government officers for three distinct executive-officer responsibilities. The advertisement is not an open graduate-level recruitment and does not create three interchangeable posts. Each of the three vacancies has its own retirement-service and Gazetted-grade criterion: Hostels, Competitive Examinations, and Accounts & Finance.
Two submissions, two deadlines: first file the online application no later than 20 November 2026, then ensure one application set with supporting documents reaches SARTHI’s Pune office by 23 November 2026. These are separate obligations; filling the online form alone is not the complete process described in the advertisement.
🗓️ Advertisement identity and important dates
The three-day interval between the deadlines is not an invitation to delay the online application. An applicant who applies electronically on 21 November cannot rely on the later physical-submission deadline to cure the first missed date.
🏛️ Three posts — three distinct service streams
🥧 Share of the three advertised Executive Officer vacancies
The title Executive Officer is common across all three assignments, but the eligibility is not common. A retired Education Service official should not treat that as eligibility for the Social Justice Service Hostels role, and a former corporate finance manager cannot replace the specific retired Gazetted Accounts Officer status by citing accounting experience.
🎓 Retirement and cadre: how to interpret the eligibility correctly
Hostels: The advertisement establishes a clear sequence. A retired Group-A Gazetted official of the Maharashtra Social Justice Service is the preferred profile. If that category of official is not available, the text allows a Group-B Gazetted official to be considered. This preference is specific to the Hostels appointment. It must not be copied into the other two vacancies.
Competitive Examinations: Both Group-A and Group-B Gazetted retired officers are expressly named, provided they have retired from Maharashtra Education Service. The notice does not impose the Hostels-style Group-A-first condition in this line.
Accounts & Finance: This is deliberately narrower: the advertisement names the Group-B Gazetted Accounts Officer cadre, not a broad finance-degree qualification. Previous government work involving bills, audit or budgets is not necessarily identical to having held the prescribed Accounts Officer cadre.
The advertisement refers to Maharashtra General Administration Department Government Resolution CBE 1525/Pr.Kr.37/Astha-M (Ka.13) dated 10 June 2025 as the governing basis. That reference does not by itself establish an exact honorarium, age ceiling, duration or interview formula for this vacancy: such conditions should be checked in the separately published SARTHI terms before applying.
📄 Application: both SARTHI stages must be completed
Stage 1 — Online by 20 November. Use SARTHI’s 6 November recruitment notice and its Apply Now entry. Choose the relevant advertised Executive Officer position and provide service particulars consistently with the retirement documents. The one-page notice does not state an online submission time or an alternate offline-only application route.
Stage 2 — Paper application set by 23 November. After applying online, submit one set of the application together with the supporting documents at SARTHI Headquarters, CT Survey No. 173, B/1, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune – 411004. The advertisement gives a date for submission at the office, not an assurance that a postal dispatch on that date is sufficient. Use the official detailed terms to confirm permitted delivery methods and any form or enclosure sequence; this short notice does not specify them.
The specified office is in Pune. The publication does not say that each advertised role can be performed remotely, nor does it supply another city for receipt of physical applications.
🧾 Documents to scrutinise before applying
The notice mandates an application set with supporting documents but does not enumerate every certificate in this one-page advertisement. For this recruitment, the decisive evidence is whatever formally establishes the relevant retired service cadre, final Gazetted group and retirement status. Match the spelling of the role, the group and the parent service with the official service/retirement records. Do not assume a private employment certificate or an unrelated degree can prove a statutory service cadre.
A sensible review before submission is to check that the online information and paper set identify the same person, same advertised assignment and same retirement-service designation. The official SARTHI अटी व शर्ती (Terms & Conditions) is a separate document on the recruitment page and may stipulate a prescribed form and additional mandatory enclosures.
💰 Nature of engagement, remuneration and age
The announcement explicitly describes procurement of retired officers’ services on a contractual basis. It does not describe these as regular Maharashtra Government recruitments for first-time entrants, permanent appointments carrying a new government pay scale, or an open examination for all age groups. The one-page sheet does not print a numeric payment amount, a pension-adjustment calculation, an upper-age ceiling or a specific duration. Therefore honorarium/pay is not specified in the available main advertisement. In particular, an amount quoted in an older SARTHI recruitment should not be transplanted into this notice.
🧭 Selection procedure and later notices
SARTHI has invited applications for selection of eligible retired officers, referring to the Government Resolution and separate conditions. No written examination, subject syllabus, marks, interview requirement or interview date is published in this one-page notice. It would be inaccurate both to promise a written paper and to claim there can never be an interview. Candidates should read the official conditions and subsequent SARTHI notice-board announcements before assuming the method or reporting arrangements.
No post-specific selection result, document-verification appointment or joining date is issued in this recruitment advertisement. Completion of either application stage is not a selection decision.
🏢 Official address and verified references
SARTHI Headquarters: CT Survey No. 173, B/1, Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Road, Pune – 411004, Maharashtra.
Office contact published in the recruitment advertisement: sarthipune@gmail.com and 020-25592504. These are contact details, not a published permission to submit the required application by email.
