The Local Self Government (LSG) Department, Rajasthan (स्वायत्त शासन विभाग, राजस्थान) has advertised 24,752 Contractual Safai Karamchari (संविदा सफाई कर्मचारी) posts in 183 urban local bodies of the state, under Advertisement No. 01/2026 dated 27 July 2026. The posts are filled under the Rajasthan Contractual Hiring to Civil Posts Rules, 2022, and are wholly contract-based.
No educational qualification is prescribed. The advertisement asks for 1 year of sanitation (safai) work experience in any urban local body of Rajasthan, and selection is by a computerised lottery, body-wise and category-wise. The honorarium is ₹7,410 per month.
The online application opened on 15 August 2026. After two extensions, the last date is now 28 October 2026 (Corrigendum 03/2026 of 12 October 2026). Corrigendum 02/2026, issued after a Rajasthan High Court (Jodhpur Bench) judgment, says all applicants can apply online without an experience certificate.
You can apply in only one urban local body. Applying in more than one body, or more than once in the same body, cancels all your applications.
| Organisation | Local Self Government Department, Rajasthan |
|---|---|
| Total Vacancies | 24,752 posts |
| Qualification | No educational qualification; advertisement asks for 1 year sanitation work experience in a Rajasthan urban local body (certificate not needed to apply, Corrigendum 02/2026) |
| Age Limit | 21 – 40 years (as on 01 Jan 2027) |
| Salary / Pay Scale | Honorarium ₹7,410 per month |
| Employment Type | Contractual (Rajasthan Contractual Hiring to Civil Posts Rules, 2022) |
| Job Location | 183 urban local bodies of Rajasthan |
| Advertisement No. 01/2026 issued | 27 Jul 2026 |
|---|---|
| Online application starts | 15 Aug 2026 |
| Experience certificates valid if issued after | 01 Aug 2026 |
| Original last date (extended) | 28 Sept 2026 |
| Corrigendum 01/2026 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| High Court (Jodhpur Bench) judgment | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Corrigendum 02/2026 | 06 Oct 2026 |
| Corrigendum 03/2026 | 12 Oct 2026 |
| Last date to apply online | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Age counted as on | 01 Jan 2027 |
| Lottery | To be announced |
| General (Unreserved) | ₹600 |
|---|---|
| Reserved categories | ₹400 |
| Persons with disabilities | ₹400 |
| OTR fee already paid earlier | No fee again |
| Post Name | Vacancies | Qualification |
|---|---|---|
| Contractual Safai Karamchari – Non-TSP area (174 urban local bodies) | 24277 | No educational qualification; advertisement asks for 1 year sanitation work experience in any Rajasthan urban local body (certificate not needed to apply, Corrigendum 02/2026) |
| Contractual Safai Karamchari – TSP (Scheduled) area (9 urban local bodies) | 475 | Same as non-TSP; only local residents of the Scheduled Area of Rajasthan |
| Education | No educational qualification is prescribed |
|---|---|
| Experience | 1 year of sanitation (safai) work experience in any urban local body of Rajasthan, continuous or added up from separate periods |
| Experience certificate | In the prescribed format; issued by the urban local body after 1 August 2026 and before the last date. Earlier certificates are not valid |
| Domicile | Original resident (मूल निवासी) of Rajasthan |
| Age | 21 to 40 years as on 1 January 2027 |
| Nationality | Citizen of India, or a subject of Nepal or Bhutan, or a Tibetan refugee settled before 1 January 1962, or a person of Indian origin migrated from the listed countries |
| One body only | Apply in only one of the 183 urban local bodies; more than one application cancels all of them |
| TSP (Scheduled) area posts | Only local residents of the Scheduled Area of Rajasthan, who must tick the Scheduled Area column in the form |
| Health | Good mental and physical health; selected candidates give a fitness certificate from the CM&HO or Medical Jurist of their home district |
| Two-child rule | Not eligible with more than two children on or after 1 June 2002 |
Computerised lottery
Eligible applicants are selected by lottery through online software of the Department of Information Technology & Communication (DoIT&C), Rajasthan, body-wise and category-wise against the advertised posts. The advertisement mentions no written exam or interview.
Priority 1: experience in the same body
First, candidates with 1 year of experience in the same urban local body.
Priority 2: experience in the same district
If posts remain, candidates with 1 year of experience in another urban local body of the same district.
Priority 3: experience anywhere in Rajasthan
If posts still remain, candidates with 1 year of experience in any urban local body of the state.
Earlier High Court petitioners
Where the Rajasthan High Court (Jodhpur or Jaipur) in earlier safai karamchari recruitments directed priority or regularisation for a petitioner, a willing petitioner who applies in that body gets priority.
Medical fitness and police verification
Selected candidates submit a fitness certificate; police verification is done on final selection.
Open the SSO portal or the department website
Log in at https://sso.rajasthan.gov.in (or through https://lsg.urban.rajasthan.gov.in/), choose Citizen apps (G2C) → Recruitment Portal, then click Apply Now. You can apply yourself or through an e-Mitra kiosk / Jan Suvidha Kendra. Only online applications are accepted.
Complete One Time Registration (OTR)
Fill your category, disability status and home state. After OTR, name, father's name, date of birth, gender and ID details cannot be changed. If you register with an SSO ID (not Aadhaar/Jan Aadhaar), upload your Secondary marksheet and one ID document.
Pay the OTR fee if you have not paid it before
₹600 for General (Unreserved), ₹400 for reserved categories and persons with disabilities. Those who paid the OTR fee earlier pay nothing again. Pay before the last date.
Choose one urban local body and fill the form
Pick only one body. Enter your Jan Aadhaar number (mandatory). Tick the Scheduled Area column only if you are a local resident of the Scheduled Area.
Live photo and signature
A live photo and your visible mark are mandatory. Signature or thumb impression in black or dark-blue pen, scanned and cropped, JPEG, 20 KB to 50 KB; mobile-phone photos of the signature are not accepted.
Submit and keep your Application ID
The form is submitted only when an Application ID is generated; Preview is not submission. Use your own SSO ID; an e-Mitra operator's mistake is treated as your own. Recruitment portal help desk: 7340557555 / 9352323625 (9.30 AM to 6.00 PM), recruitmenthelpdesk@rajasthan.gov.in.
The advertisement lists the posts body by body. The separate post lists split each body's posts by category, and each category into general, women (F), widow (W) and divorcee (D) columns. The figures below are our sums of those four columns in each list's Total row:
| Category | Non-TSP area (174 bodies) | TSP area (9 bodies) |
|---|---|---|
| UR (General) | 8,742 | 245 |
| EWS | 2,427 | – |
| SC | 3,884 | 20 |
| ST | 2,913 | 210 |
| OBC | 5,098 | – |
| MBC | 1,213 | – |
| Total | 24,277 | 475 |
Grand total: 24,277 + 475 = 24,752 posts. Posts for women, ex-servicemen, sportspersons and persons with disabilities are counted inside these figures, not added on top. The TSP list has no EWS, OBC or MBC columns.
TSP area bodies: Mount Abu 46, Abu Road 125, Salumbar 18, Pratapgarh 70, Chhoti Sadri 25, Banswara 64, Kushalgarh 20, Sagwara 35 and Dungarpur 72 (total 475).
Largest non-TSP bodies: Jaipur 4,811, Kota 1,357, Bikaner 1,084, Jodhpur 890, Sikar 480, Bharatpur 450, Alwar 426 and Bhiwadi 350. The posts of all 174 non-TSP bodies are on pages 4 to 8 of the advertisement.
| SC, ST, OBC, MBC and EWS men (original residents of Rajasthan) | 5 years |
|---|---|
| General category women (original residents of Rajasthan) | 5 years |
| SC, ST, OBC, MBC and EWS women (original residents of Rajasthan) | 10 years |
| Widows and divorced women | No upper age limit |
| Ex-servicemen | 10 years |
| Persons with benchmark disabilities | 5 years |
| Ex-prisoners | Upper age limit does not apply if they served substantively before conviction and were eligible; otherwise relaxed by the period of imprisonment, if they were not over-age before conviction and were eligible under the rules |
| Temporarily appointed persons in this service | Treated as within age if they were within age at first appointment |
| Cadet instructors | Relaxed by the period of NCC service, if the resulting age is not more than 3 years above the maximum |
| Released Emergency / Short Service Commissioned officers | Treated as within age if they were eligible when commissioned |
| Persons repatriated from Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pak war | No age limit |
| Persons serving substantively in the State Government, Panchayat Samiti, Zila Parishad or a State PSU/Corporation | Upper age limit 40 years |
| Combining relaxations | Relaxations under more than one provision are not added together; a reserved-category candidate who takes any concession other than the fee (such as age) is not considered for unreserved posts |
| Retirement age | 60 years; your age must not exceed 60 on the date of appointment |
| Women | 30% horizontal, category-wise |
|---|---|
| Ex-servicemen | 15% (advertisement), category-wise |
| Outstanding sportspersons | 2%, horizontal |
| Persons with benchmark disabilities | 4%, horizontal |
| TSP (Scheduled) area residence | A bona fide resident living in the Scheduled Area since before 1 January 1970 (for those born after that date, their parents or ancestors); also a person married to such a resident and living there since marriage |
| EWS | 10% |
| MBC | 5% (non-creamy layer) |
| Other-state reserved candidates | Treated as General |
| Concession and general posts | A reserved-category candidate who takes any concession other than the fee (such as age) is not considered for unreserved posts |
| Saharia (Baran) | Reservation only if marked in the form; otherwise General |
24,752 Contractual Safai Karamchari posts in 183 urban local bodies: 24,277 in 174 non-TSP bodies and 475 in 9 TSP (Scheduled Area) bodies, under LSG Advertisement No. 01/2026 dated 27 July 2026.
28 October 2026 (Wednesday). The original last date was 28 September 2026; Corrigendum 01/2026 extended it to 13 October and Corrigendum 03/2026 of 12 October 2026 extended it to 28 October 2026.
No. The advertisement prescribes no educational qualification. It asks for 1 year of sanitation work experience in any urban local body of Rajasthan and Rajasthan domicile. Corrigendum 02/2026 lets all applicants apply online without an experience certificate.
No. Corrigendum 02/2026, issued after the Rajasthan High Court (Jodhpur Bench) judgment of 25 September 2026 in S.B. Civil Writ Petitions 23815/2026, 23782/2026 and 23805/2026, says all applicants can apply online without an experience certificate. It also says the other conditions remain unchanged. Under the advertisement, the lottery gives priority to candidates with 1 year of experience: in the same body, then the same district, then anywhere in Rajasthan.
By a computerised lottery on DoIT&C software, body-wise and category-wise. Priority goes first to candidates with 1 year of experience in the same body, then in the same district, then anywhere in Rajasthan. The advertisement mentions no written exam or interview. The lottery date has not been announced.
An honorarium of ₹7,410 per month, as per the Labour Department notification of 13 December 2024.
21 to 40 years as on 1 January 2027. Rajasthan's SC/ST/OBC/MBC/EWS men and General women get 5 years, SC/ST/OBC/MBC/EWS women 10 years, ex-servicemen 10 years, and benchmark-disability candidates 5 years in addition to category relaxation. Widows and divorced women have no upper age limit, but they must be below the retirement age. Only one relaxation applies; the advertisement adds the 5 years for benchmark disability on top of the category relaxation.
It is the One Time Registration (OTR) fee: ₹600 for General (Unreserved) and ₹400 for reserved categories and persons with disabilities. If you have already paid the OTR fee earlier, you pay nothing again.
No. You can apply in only one of the 183 bodies. Applying in more than one body, or more than once in the same body, cancels all your applications.
Online only, through the SSO portal (https://sso.rajasthan.gov.in) → Citizen apps (G2C) → Recruitment Portal → Apply Now, yourself or at an e-Mitra kiosk / Jan Suvidha Kendra. Offline forms are not accepted.
