A total of 60 young professionals will be enrolled in the Maharashtra Chief Minister Fellowship programme for the year 2025-26.
The CM fellowship programme kicked off in the first term of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in 2015 and continued till 2019. One of the pet schemes of Fadnavis, the programme was discontinued during the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and Covid-19 outbreak. It was restarted in 2023-24 when Eknath Shinde was the CM but did not continue due to general and assembly elections.
The programme will now start giving opportunity to 60 young professionals in the age group of 21-26 to work with different government departments for a year, out of which at least one-third will be women. They will be paid Rs 61,500 per month.
A total of 210 candidates — in the age group of 21-26 — will be selected through an online test, and they will be interviewed by a panel of bureaucrats and experts from different fields. Under the programme, graduates with a work experience of one year will be selected to work with different government departments. They will be assigned with the offices of secretaries, collectors, and zilla parishad CEOs.
Those selected will be enrolled in a post-graduated certificate course in public policy which will be held in collaboration with IIT Mumbai.
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