BTC GT PGT Recruitment 2026: 852 Posts, Apply by 19 Nov

The BTC GT PGT Recruitment 2026 covers 852 teacher posts in the Bodoland Territorial Council area of Assam. The Directorate of Education, BTC, Kokrajhar published four advertisements on 4 November 2026: 761 Graduate Teacher posts and 91 Post Graduate Teacher posts in provincialised secondary schools and in the Govt HS and MP School, Kokrajhar. Applications close at 5 PM on 19 November 2026.

Only permanent residents of the BTC area can apply. The fee is Rs 950 for General candidates, Rs 600 for SC, ST, OBC and MOBC candidates, and Rs 500 for PwD candidates. Selection runs through a 140 mark TET cum Recruitment Test followed by document verification.

BTC GT PGT Recruitment 2026 at a glance

How the 852 posts break up

The biggest advertisement covers 746 Graduate Teacher posts in provincialised secondary schools. It spans five streams: Arts, Science, Hindi, Sanskrit and Santali. The notice gives no district wise, subject wise or category wise breakup. It says the directorate will publish that breakup on the official website in due course, so a candidate applying here is applying for the stream, not for a named district or school.

The number of posts can change for administrative reasons, and the advertisement says so in plain words.

The other three advertisements are smaller and specific. Fifteen Graduate Teacher (Arts) posts sit in the Govt HS and MP School, Kokrajhar: eight for Assamese medium and seven for Bodo medium. Seventy-two Post Graduate Teacher posts sit in provincialised secondary schools across the BTC area. Nineteen Post Graduate Teacher posts sit in the Govt HS and MP School, Kokrajhar, spread across seventeen subjects.

Assamese and Vocational Office Management carry two posts each. The other fifteen subjects carry one post each: Chemistry, Hindi, Zoology, History, English, Geography, Commerce Accountancy, Maths, Bodo, Commerce Business Studies, Political Science, Commerce Banking, Auditing, Vocational Accountancy and Auditing, and Economics.

Who can apply

Every advertisement limits applications to permanent residents of the BTC area who are Indian citizens. A candidate from outside the BTC area cannot apply, even with the right degree. That is the first filter, and all four advertisements state it.

For Graduate Teacher posts, the candidate needs a graduation or post graduation in Arts, Commerce or Science with at least 50 percent marks in either degree, plus a B.Ed from an NCTE recognised institution. Hindi posts accept Pravin or Ratna in Hindi with 50 percent marks alongside a degree with 50 percent marks. Sanskrit posts accept Shastri with 50 percent marks alongside a degree with 50 percent marks. Santali posts need the same Arts degree and B.Ed, plus HSLC with Santali as a subject or a diploma in Santali from the Axom Santali Sahitya Sabha.

For Post Graduate Teacher posts, the candidate needs a post graduation in the concerned subject with at least 50 percent marks, plus a B.Ed, and the same subject must have been one of the subjects at degree level. Vocational Accountancy and Auditing and Vocational Office Management posts need an M.Com. Degrees from off campus or distance mode institutions do not count, with KKHSOU, IGNOU, IDOL under Gauhati University and distance education under Dibrugarh University treated as valid.

Medium matters as much as the degree. A candidate for an Assamese medium school must have passed HSLC with Assamese as a subject, or hold a diploma in Assamese from the Axom Sahitya Sabha, or have studied up to HSLC in an Assamese medium school. The same pattern applies for Bengali, Hindi, Bodo and English medium schools, each with its own language proof.

Age limits differ by post. Graduate Teacher candidates must be 18 to 40 years old. Post Graduate Teacher candidates must be 21 to 38 years old. Relaxations run to 42 for ex-servicemen, 43 for OBC and MOBC, 45 for SC and ST in the Graduate Teacher advertisements, and to 40 for ex-servicemen, 41 for OBC and MOBC, 43 for SC and ST, and 48 for PwD candidates in the Post Graduate Teacher advertisements, while Graduate Teacher allows 50 for PwD.

The Graduate Teacher advertisements and the 19 post Post Graduate Teacher advertisement count age as on 1 January 2026. The 72 post Post Graduate Teacher advertisement counts it as on 1 January 2023, and the section below takes up that difference.

Two more conditions apply across all four advertisements. Under the state policy on small family norms, a person with more than two living children on or after 1 January 2021 cannot take up the post. Candidates with NOT CLEAR status against any qualification cannot apply. The advertisements reserve three percent of posts for martyr and victim families of the Bodoland Movement, on production of a certificate from the IBA Department, BTC, and PwD reservation applies as per existing government rules.

The test carries 140 marks

The BTC teacher recruitment 2026 runs selection through the same paper for every stream and subject within a post type. It carries 140 marks: Pedagogy 50, About Assam and its People 50, General English 30, and General Studies and Current Affairs 10. One common question paper covers all Graduate Teacher vacancies, and one common paper covers all Post Graduate Teacher vacancies.

Marks beyond the test can add up to 15. Five marks go to NCC C certificate holders, or three for a B certificate, or five for national level sports representing Assam, or five for fine arts and cultural achievements representing the state at national level. Candidates who passed an earlier High School TET or Higher Secondary TET and never got an appointment get weightage of 5 percent of their TET marks, capped at five marks. Candidates who worked on a six month contract with the BTC authority in 2025, teaching Mathematics and Science in ME, High and Higher Secondary schools, get five more marks.

The merit list takes qualified candidates in a 1 to 1 ratio with the vacancies. If posts stay vacant after the first list, the directorate can publish up to two more merit lists.

The directorate draws the lists stream wise for Graduate Teacher posts and subject wise for Post Graduate Teacher posts. Document verification follows, and the directorate has not announced an exam date yet. The advertisements say the directorate will notify the date and time of the test on the official website.

Check these two details before you apply

Two details in these advertisements deserve a second look, because other sites are already reporting them wrong or not at all.

First, the age cut off date. The Graduate Teacher advertisements and the 19 post Post Graduate Teacher advertisement count age as on 1 January 2026. The 72 post Post Graduate Teacher advertisement counts age as on 1 January 2023. A candidate who turned 38 during 2024 would be over age under the 2023 date and within age under the 2026 date, so the difference changes who can apply.

The 2023 date reads like a leftover from an older advertisement, but the notice as published is the only authority. Candidates for the 72 post PGT advertisement should confirm the cut off with the Directorate of Education before paying the fee, and not rely on a summary that quietly picks one date.

Second, the fee. The 746 post Graduate Teacher advertisement carries no fee at all. The fee arrived a day later, in an addendum dated 6 November 2026, which sets Rs 950 for General candidates, Rs 600 for SC, ST, OBC and MOBC candidates, and Rs 500 for PwD candidates.

The other three advertisements carry the same fee inside the advertisement itself. Candidates who applied on 4 or 5 November, before the addendum, should check whether the portal now asks for the fee, and keep the payment receipt with the application printout.

How to apply

Applications go in online only, at education.bodoland.gov.in. Graduate Teacher applications opened at 10 AM on 4 November. Post Graduate Teacher applications opened at 11 AM on 5 November. Both close at 5 PM on 19 November 2026.

The directorate accepts no offline application.

Upload documents as colour scanned, self attested PDFs: passport size colour photograph, HSLC mark sheet and admit card for age proof, HSSLC mark sheet and certificate, degree mark sheets and certificate, post graduation mark sheet and certificate where needed, B.Ed mark sheets and certificate, caste certificate where applicable, disability certificate where applicable, scanned signature, ex-servicemen certificate where applicable, BTC residential certificate, and the engagement order and working certificate for the 2025 contractual teachers claiming the extra marks.

After submission, the portal issues a unique number. Keep the printout of the form and the unique number. Candidates must produce the same documents, with self attested copies, at document verification before the council level committee, along with the originals.

A candidate cannot submit the form twice or correct documents after submission, so check every upload before the final click. The directorate verifies documents through DigiLocker and QR code checks, and can call for physical verification at any point.

The BTC teacher recruitment 2026 is not the only teacher drive open right now. If the BTC residency rule keeps you out, the AEES Teacher Recruitment 2026 post on this site covers 254 teaching and non-teaching posts across Atomic Energy Central Schools, with applications open till 22 November. That drive has no residency condition of this kind, and the same B.Ed and graduation profile fits it.

Sources & verification: Directorate of Education, Bodoland Territorial Council, Kokrajhar. Four advertisements dated 4 November 2026, read 7 November 2026 from the official PDFs on education.bodoland.gov.in: Graduate Teacher in provincialised secondary schools (746 posts, Advt DE/BTC/Sec/Apptt-7/Pt-I/2026/13); Graduate Teacher Arts in Govt HS and MP School (15 posts, Advt DE/BTC/Sec/Apptt-7/Pt-II/2026/10); Post Graduate Teacher in provincialised secondary schools (72 posts, Advt DE/BTC/Apptt-1/Sec/Pt-1/2026/12); Post Graduate Teacher in Govt HS and MP School (19 posts, Advt DE/BTC/Sec/Apptt-7/Pt-II/2026/9). Addendum on application fees dated 6 November 2026 (Advt DE/BTC/Sec/Apptt-7/Pt-I/2026/18). All figures in this article come from those documents.