DSSSB TGT Eligibility: Age Limit, 45% Rule, B.Ed and CTET by Subject

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The essential qualifications, subject by subject

Each post entry in the advertisement quotes the recruitment rule of the user department (DoE: R.No. F.DE.3(15)/E-III/Misc/2021/2238 dated 22 November 2021; NDMC: R.No. D-13/P.A. Dir.(Edn)/2021 dated 23 March 2021, and for Hindi R.No. D-353/S.A.-I/Edn. Estt./2021 dated 28 December 2021). The table summarises the DoE wording; every post also needs a degree in education and CTET.

A footnote applies to every Trained Graduate Teacher post: "The candidate should have studied the subject concerned as mentioned in the RR's for at least 02 years during the Graduation course", and an elective may include the main subject as practised in different universities. The advertisement also defines what a "school subject" is, in a list of 36: English, Hindi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, History, Urdu, Social Science, Geography, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Philosophy, Education, Fine Arts, Physical Education, Agriculture, Natural Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Computer Science, Biology, Informative Practices, Statistics, Engineering Drawing, Business Studies, Public Administration, Accountancy, Biotechnology, Home Science, Drawing, Music and Painting.

One more footnote matters for Hindi: "If a candidate has studied Hindi as a subject up to 8th class or in any class above 8th level, he/she may be considered as having knowledge of Hindi." That is the test for the "working knowledge of Hindi" condition in the Mathematics, English, Social Science and Natural Science posts, and for the "knowledge of Hindi is essential" condition in the language posts.

Where the NDMC wording differs

For the NDMC line of each subject the advertisement quotes a different rule, and it is not identical in structure. For Mathematics, English, Social Science and Natural Science it asks for a bachelor's degree with at least 45 per cent aggregate "in two school subjects of which [the subject] should have been at the elective level", and working knowledge of Hindi "at least up to Secondary Level". It adds that qualifying CTET "is compulsory for appointment as a teacher for Class I to V and Class VI to VIII", where the DoE entry simply says "should have qualified CTET from CBSE". The language posts for NDMC follow the DoE wording. The practical point is that because a candidate sits one paper for the post code and expresses department preferences afterwards, a candidate who meets the DoE wording and not the NDMC wording should not rank NDMC, because the user department checks eligibility at document verification and DSSSB does not move a candidate to another department.

CTET: what the advertisement does and does not say

The advertisement says "should have qualified CTET from CBSE" for every DoE TGT post, and that is all. It does not name Paper I or Paper II, does not give a date by which the certificate must be held other than the general rule that eligibility is judged on 8 March 2024, and does not say how a CTET certificate older or newer than that date is treated. Our reading is that a teacher of classes VI to X would need the secondary-level paper (Paper II), which is how the NDMC note about classes VI to VIII reads, but the advertisement does not say it, so treat it as an inference and check the exact wording when the next advertisement is out. Candidates are also advised to ascertain eligibility themselves: DSSSB's resolution of 14 July 2022, quoted in each result notice, says the Board "shall neither undertake scrutiny of documents uploaded by the shortlisted candidates in their e-dossier nor check the eligibility", and that the user department does it at document verification.

Age limit: the arithmetic

Every TGT post says "Below 32 years" with "Relaxable up to 40 years in case of Female candidates", and "Age relaxation will be given as per para 8" of the advertisement. "Below 32" on the cut-off date of 8 March 2024 means you must have turned 32 after that date, so you must have been born on or after 9 March 1992. The table converts each limit to a birth date (our arithmetic). The women's limit is printed as "upto 40" while the general limit is "Below 32"; we test the women's limit as below 40 on the cut-off date, and a woman who turned exactly 40 on 8 March 2024 is an edge case the advertisement does not settle. The advertisement does not say whether the women's limit of 40 stacks with the category concessions; the table lists the women's limit by itself and the concessions by themselves, and the checker flags the combined case.

The relaxation table in para 8 gives SC/ST 5 years, OBC 3 years, PwBD with UR or EWS 10 years, PwBD with SC/ST 15 years, PwBD with OBC 13 years, departmental candidates (regular government servants with at least three years of continuous service) up to 5 years for Group B posts in the same line or allied cadres, and ex-servicemen "period of military service plus 3 years (maximum up to the age of 55 years)". The note under it says concessions are regulated as per DoPT guidelines, and that any specific relaxation in the DoE or NDMC recruitment rules applies to those posts. Contractual employees of the same department can get a one-time extension of up to five years, equal to time served, provided they worked at least 120 working days in the year, under a Services Department memorandum dated 11 June 2019. PwBD age relaxation applies whether the post is reserved or not, but only if the post is identified suitable for the disability.

OBC: why "Delhi" matters

Fee, categories and the Differently Abled Women notice

The application fee is Rs 100, payable only by SBI e-pay, non-refundable, and women, SC, ST, PwBD and ex-servicemen are exempt; ex-servicemen who have already taken a civil job after using the ex-servicemen concession are not exempt. Category cannot be changed after the application is submitted. DSSSB's notice (listed 13 June 2025, dated 12 June) tells PwBD candidates who applied as Differently Abled Women under Advertisement 02/2024 to update and upload their PwBD category and sub-category certificates, issued on or before 8 March 2024, through a special link open from 16 June to 6 July 2025, and says the information submitted "will be considered final". The Urdu shortlisting notice adds that a Differently Abled Woman must upload a certificate clearly showing the sub-category (VH, OH, HH or MD). The Punjabi notice warns that if a candidate prefers a department where the post is not identified suitable for the sub-category and DSSSB allots it, the candidature "shall be liable to be rejected by the User Department" and the candidate will not be considered for any other post.