Maharashtra PWD SSR: Why 2022-23 Is Still the Current Schedule of Rates
Maharashtra PWD has published no State Schedule of Rates since 2022-23. What the 2025-26 and 2026-27 searches are actually finding, how the book is structured, and which department's schedule applies.
Maharashtra draws more search traffic for Schedule of Rates editions that do not exist than for the one that does. People look for "state schedule of rates maharashtra 2025-26", for "maharashtra pwd ssr 2026-27", for the current PDF — and what they find is a book from 2022.
That is not a broken search result. It is the correct answer, and it is worth stating plainly.
The current edition is SSR 2022-23
The Maharashtra PWD publications page carries exactly one State Schedule of Rates: State Schedule Of Rate 2022-2023, a single PDF of about 8 MB. There is no 2023-24 edition, no 2024-25, no 2025-26, and no 2026-27.
The book's own preface fixes the date:
"Govt. of Maharashtra, Public works Department is glad to publish new State Schedule of Rates for the year 2022-23 as approved vide [Government Resolution] दिनांक 25/07/2022"
and immediately after: "This S.S.R. shall be effective from 25 July 2022."
So the schedule took effect nearly four months into the financial year it is named for. Maharashtra is not unusual in this — Telangana's Common Schedule of Rates runs from 1 June rather than 1 April — but the assumption that a schedule turns over with the financial year is wrong in both states, and in Maharashtra it has now been wrong for four consecutive years.
What the 2025-26 searches are actually finding
Where a year like 2024-25 or 2025-26 appears next to a Maharashtra PWD rate schedule, it is nearly always the contract period rather than an edition. Annual rate contracts covering those years are floated with the rates drawn from SSR 2022-23; the years describe the term of the contract, not the book.
This matters because the two readings lead to different work. If you believe a 2025-26 SSR exists, you will spend time hunting for a PDF that was never published, and may treat a rate you find elsewhere as newer than it is. If you know the edition is 2022-23, the real question becomes the one that matters: whether the tender's own escalation and price-variation clauses carry rates from July 2022 to the present day.
And as always, more important than any of the above: the edition cited in the tender document governs. If a notice names SSR 2022-23, that is the book, whatever any portal shows.
What is in the book
The 2022-23 SSR covers PWD civil works end to end. Its preface says so directly: "all the sections related to Road work, Bridge & CD work, Building work are included. In addition 40 new items based on new innovative technology available in the market are also made available in 2022-23 SSR."
Our transcription of the published PDF holds 2,052 rate items across 81 chapters. The weight sits where you would expect for a department that builds and maintains both roads and buildings:
| Chapter | Items |
|---|---|
| Water Supply and Sanitary Fitting | 213 |
| Road Furniture | 155 |
| Doors and Windows | 110 |
| Paving Flooring and dado | 78 |
| Road Survey and DPR | 76 |
| Bridge Super Structure | 72 |
Units follow the same shape: 701 items priced per Sqm, 501 per Each, 366 per Cum, 364 per Rmt, with smaller sets in MT, KM, KG and Litre.
The "New Item" chapters are a real trap
Nine of the 81 chapters are "New Item" variants of a parent chapter rather than chapters in their own right: Bridge : Bored Pile New Item, Bridge Maintenance New Item, Bridge Repair New Item, Expansion Joint ( New Item ), Green Building ( New Item ), Rigid Pavement (New item), Road Furniture new item, Roofing and Ceiling ( New Item), and a general New Item chapter. Between them they hold 110 items.
The consequence for an estimator is direct. Look up bridge repair in the Bridge repair chapter and you will find rates — but 46 further bridge-repair items sit in Bridge Repair New Item, and nothing in the parent chapter tells you they are there. The newer items were grafted on beside their parents rather than merged into them. Any lookup that stops at the first matching chapter name will silently miss them.
The same caution applies to the near-duplicate spellings the book carries — Masonary alongside Masonry Bridge Repair, Bored Pile alongside Bridge : Bored Pile. Search the item text, not the chapter heading.
PWD is not the only schedule in Maharashtra
Maharashtra splits its schedules by department, which is the more common Indian pattern and the opposite of Telangana's single common book covering four departments.
| Department | Schedule | Current edition |
|---|---|---|
| Public Works Department | State Schedule of Rates (SSR) | 2022-23 |
| Water Resources Department | Common Schedule of Rate (CSR) | 2022-23 |
Both stand at 2022-23, which makes it easy to assume they are interchangeable. They are not. They are separately compiled books with different item sets, and pricing an irrigation tender against the PWD SSR will not reconcile against the department's own estimate.
Who actually maintains the schedule
One detail in the preface is worth reading closely, because it explains why the book is shaped the way it is. Rather than a single editorial address, the preface routes suggestions to different circle offices by subject — road, survey, DPR and road furniture to one Superintending Engineer; buildings to another; bridges and CD works to a third; green building and survey, new items, coastal items, and bamboo and bridge-cum-bhandara items each to their own; machinery rates to the mechanical wing.
The SSR is therefore not compiled centrally and then issued. It is assembled from chapter families owned by different circles across the state. That is the mechanism behind the duplicated chapter names and the bolted-on "New Item" chapters: each owner adds to its own section, and consolidation happens at publication rather than continuously.
Pricing against it
The mechanics of turning a schedule into a priced bid are the same in Maharashtra as anywhere else — how rate analysis builds a unit rate from labour, material and machinery constants, and how a tender's BOQ differs from the schedule it is priced against.
What Maharashtra adds is an age problem rather than a geography problem. Where Uttarakhand distributes rates district by district and Karnataka splits by work type across volumes, Maharashtra publishes one statewide book and then leaves it in place for years. The exposure is not "which district's rates apply" but "how far have input prices moved since July 2022, and does the contract let me recover that". Where a comparable central schedule is in play, the CPWD cost index is the instrument that does this adjustment explicitly; the Maharashtra SSR has no equivalent built in.
We publish the SSR 2022-23 rate items as a searchable table with free Excel and CSV downloads, transcribed from the department's own PDF. For every other state's publishing department, current edition and official link, see the Schedule of Rates by state directory.
Where the day actually goes
Finding the PDF takes a minute. The work that consumes an estimator's day is mapping a tender's BOQ onto the right chapter — including the "New Item" chapter nobody mentioned — and then judging what a rate fixed in July 2022 is worth against today's inputs. Arched's estimation engine reads the tender, identifies the applicable schedule, and flags those exposures before submission.
Editions and links change without notice. Confirm the current schedule on the official source before bidding.