DSSSB Teacher Recruitment — PRT, TGT and PGT
Delhi's government schools recruit teachers through the Delhi Subordinate Services Selection Board. This page follows the three latest teaching advertisements: TGT (Advt 06/2025, 5,346 posts), Assistant Teacher Primary (Advt 05/2025, 1,180 posts) and PGT (Advt 10/2024, 432 posts), plus the TGT Computer Science and Special Educator posts in Advt 03/2026.
The latest teacher advertisements
TGT — Advt 06/2025 (3 Oct 2025): 5,346 posts of Trained Graduate Teacher in nine subjects (male and female posts advertised separately), Drawing Teacher and Special Education Teacher; applications ran from 9 October to 7 November 2025. [1]
Assistant Teacher (Primary) — Advt 05/2025 (10 Sep 2025): 1,180 posts — 1,055 in the Directorate of Education and 125 in NDMC; applications ran from 17 September to 16 October 2025. [3]
PGT — Advt 10/2024 (30 Dec 2024): 432 posts of Post Graduate Teacher in Hindi, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Economics, Commerce, History, Geography, Political Science and other subjects; applications ran from 16 January to 14 February 2025. [2]
Advt 03/2026 (29 May 2026, applications 16 June – 15 July 2026) added TGT Computer Science (675 posts), Special Educator (Primary) (450), TGT Special Education Teacher (163) and Domestic Science Teacher (129), alongside non-teaching posts — 1,979 posts in all. [4]
TGT 2025 vacancies by subject (Advt 06/2025, Directorate of Education) [1]
| Subject | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 744 | 376 |
| English | 869 | 104 |
| Social Science | 310 | 92 |
| Natural Science | 630 | 502 |
| Hindi | 420 | 136 |
| Sanskrit | 342 | 416 |
| Urdu | 45 | 116 |
| Punjabi | 67 | 160 |
Vacancies are tentative and are reported by the departments (Directorate of Education, NDMC); DSSSB says they may go up or down. Exam dates are announced later only on the DSSSB website. [1]
Qualifications for each teaching post
TGT and Drawing Teacher (Advt 06/2025) [1]
| Post | Qualification | Age limit |
|---|---|---|
| TGT (subject) | Bachelor's in the subject with 50% (subject studied at least 2 years) or master's with 50% in bachelor's or master's, or 4-year B.El.Ed / B.Sc.B.Ed / B.A.B.Ed; plus B.Ed and CTET | Up to 30 years |
| Drawing Teacher | 5-year diploma in drawing / painting / sculpture / graphic art, or master's in drawing and painting / fine art, or bachelor's in fine art + 2-year diploma | Up to 30 years |
- Assistant Teacher (Primary): Class 12 with 50% + 2-year Diploma in Elementary Education (or 45% under the NCTE 2002 norms, or a 4-year B.El.Ed) + CTET; age up to 30 years. [3]
- PGT: master's in the subject with at least 50% + B.Ed (or B.A.B.Ed / B.Sc.B.Ed, or 3-year integrated B.Ed-M.Ed); age up to 30 years. [2]
- Cut-off date: qualification, age and experience are counted on the closing date of the advertisement (7 Nov 2025 for TGT 2025).
- Citizenship: the candidate must be a citizen of India.
- Government servants: the 30-year limit is relaxable up to 5 years under central instructions.
- Guest / contract teachers of DoE: a one-time relaxation equal to the time served as a contract employee of the same department, up to 5 years, if they worked at least 120 days in that year (Services Department OM of 11 June 2019). [1]
Age relaxation (para 7 of Advt 06/2025) [1]
| Category | Extra years |
|---|---|
| SC / ST | 5 |
| OBC (Delhi) | 3 |
| PwBD (UR / EWS) | 10 |
| PwBD (SC / ST) | 15 |
| PwBD (OBC) | 13 |
| Ex-servicemen (Group B) | military service + 3 years, up to age 55 |
One-tier computer-based test
TGT, Drawing and Special Education Teacher — one tier, MCQ, 1 mark each (Advt 06/2025) [1]
| Section | Content | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| A | General awareness, reasoning, arithmetic, Hindi, English (20 each) | 100 |
| B | The subject, including teaching methodology / B.Ed | 100 |
| Total | 200 questions in 2 hours | 200 |
PGT — one tier, MCQ, 1 mark each (Advt 10/2024) [2]
| Section | Content | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| I | Mental ability, general awareness, English, Hindi, numerical aptitude and data interpretation (20 each) | 100 |
| II | Post-graduation subject and teaching methodology | 200 |
| Total | 300 questions in 3 hours | 300 |
Assistant Teacher (Primary) also has a one-tier, 200-question, 200-mark, 2-hour test (Advt 05/2025). [3]
- Negative marking: 0.25 mark for each wrong answer.
- Questions are bilingual (Hindi and English) except the language sections.
- Minimum qualifying marks apply only to the subject section (Section B), but Section A + B together decide the merit list.
- Scores from multiple shifts are normalised by DSSSB's 2018 formula; draft answer keys are shown online for objections; there is no re-checking.
- Ties are broken by more marks in the subject section, then by older age, then by first name in English alphabetical order. [1]
Minimum qualifying marks [1]
| Category | Minimum |
|---|---|
| General / EWS | 40% |
| OBC (Delhi) | 35% |
| SC / ST / PwBD | 30% |
| Ex-servicemen | 5% less than their category (not below 30%) |
PGT is a combined examination: post preferences for departments are taken at the e-dossier stage, and anyone who does not submit at least one preference is left out of the final result. There is no waiting panel. [2]
The Delhi-OBC rule, EWS and own-merit selection
Only OBC (Delhi) candidates get OBC reservation or age relaxation in DSSSB. An OBC certificate from another state (OBC-Outside) is treated as Unreserved, and such candidates must apply in the UR category. [1]
- Valid OBC certificates: (a) an OBC (Delhi) certificate issued by the Revenue Department, Government of NCT of Delhi, for a caste notified as OBC by Delhi; or (b) an OBC certificate from outside Delhi, for a caste notified as OBC by Delhi, issued on the basis of a Delhi OBC certificate of the father, siblings or real paternal uncles who lived in Delhi before 8 September 1993.
- Dates: the OBC certificate must be issued on or before the closing date; the OBC non-creamy-layer certificate must be issued between 1 April 2025 and the closing date (for TGT 2025).
- Category is final: the category chosen in the online form cannot be changed later.
- Own merit: SC, ST, OBC, EWS and PwBD candidates selected without any relaxed standard are counted against unreserved vacancies; anyone who used a relaxation (age, qualification and so on) is counted against reserved vacancies.
- Guest teachers: one-time age relaxation for contract or guest teachers of DoE who have not used it before. [1]
What to keep ready for the e-dossier
- DSSSB one-time registration on dsssbonline.nic.in (only one registration is allowed; duplicates are cancelled and debarred).
- Mark sheets and degrees for the subject degree or master's, B.Ed / D.El.Ed, and the CTET certificate.
- OBC (Delhi) certificate and a non-creamy-layer certificate of the current year, EWS certificate, SC / ST certificate, PwBD certificate, ex-servicemen papers, as applicable.
- Contract / guest service proof if claiming the one-time age relaxation.
- Copies are asked for only at the online e-dossier stage; missing the e-dossier window ends the candidature. [1]
Exam-day rules: no phones, watches or metal items; light half-sleeve clothes and slippers or low-heel sandals (shoes not allowed). [1]
Pay levels of teaching posts
- TGT, Drawing Teacher, Special Education Teacher: Level-7, ₹44,900 – ₹1,42,400, Group B non-gazetted. [1]
- Assistant Teacher (Primary): Level-6, ₹35,400 – ₹1,12,400. [3]
- PGT: Level-8, ₹47,600 – ₹1,51,100, Group B non-gazetted. [2]
The first figure of each range is the starting basic pay. In-hand salary adds dearness allowance, HRA and other allowances and subtracts deductions; the advertisements give only the pay level, so no in-hand figure is shown here.
Where DSSSB teachers work
Selected teachers join Delhi Government schools run by the Directorate of Education or schools of the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), depending on the post code they applied for; final allotment follows merit and the department preferences given at the e-dossier stage. [2]
Where these facts come from
Every fact on this page is taken from the official files below, read on 14 October 2026. Boards change rules, fees and dates every cycle — open the current notification before you apply.
- DSSSB — Vacancy Notice / Advertisement No. 06/2025 (TGT, Drawing Teacher, Special Education Teacher), 3 Oct 2025 (opens in a new tab) TGT vacancies, qualifications, age and relaxations, fee, exam scheme, qualifying marks, OBC (Delhi) rules, documents, pay · Last checked 14 Oct 2026
- DSSSB — Advertisement No. 10/2024, Combined Examination 2024 for Post Graduate Teacher (30 Dec 2024) (opens in a new tab) PGT vacancies (432), qualification, age, 300-mark scheme, post preferences, pay · Last checked 14 Oct 2026
- DSSSB — Advertisement No. 05/2025, Combined Examination 2025 for Assistant Teacher (Primary) (10 Sep 2025) (opens in a new tab) PRT vacancies (1,180), qualification, age, exam, pay · Last checked 14 Oct 2026
- DSSSB — Advertisement No. 03/2026, post codes 21/26 to 45/26 (29 May 2026) (opens in a new tab) TGT Computer Science, Special Educator, Domestic Science Teacher vacancies and dates · Last checked 14 Oct 2026
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