Admission to D.El.Ed Course under Face to Face/ Regular Mode, 2025-2027
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
“Acharya Prafulla Chandra Bhavan”, DK 7/1, Sector II, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700091
Tel. +913323348983 & +913323211202 Email: secretarywbbpe.ptti@gmail.com/ website – wbbpe.wb.gov.in
No. 432/WBBPE/D.EI.Ed./2025/95P-06/25 Date: 30/06/2025
NOTIFICATION
(Regarding Admission to the 2-year D.El.Ed. Course under Regular/ Face to Face Mode for the Session 2025-2027 in D.EI.Ed. Institutes Affiliated with West Bengal Board of Primary Education)
1. On and from 4 July, 2025, Friday (12:00 Noon onwards), online applications are invited from intending eligible persons in consonance with NOTE norms (Appendix-2 of NOTE Regulations-2014) i.e. having 50% or more marks in H.S or its equivalent examination, for admission to the 2-year D.EI.Ed. Course (Regular/ Face-to-Face Mode) for the Session 2025 – 2027 in Institutes recognized by the NOTE and affiliated with WBBPE.
[List of Institutes are available in the website of WBBPE]
2. Eligibility (As per NCTE Regulations, 2014):
a. Candidates with at least 50% marks in the Higher Secondary (10+2) or its Equivalent Examination are eligible for admission.
b. A relaxation of 5% marks (i.e. 45% in Higher Secondary [10+2] or its equivalent examination) is admissible to candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/PwD/EX-SERVICEMEN category/categories.
c. In order to avail such relaxation, an applicant is required to submit relevant certificate(s) of such category/categories, issued by the competent authority of the Govt, of West Bengal.
The entry qualifications of an applicant belonging to Ex-Servicemen shall be determined in terms of School Education Department’s Notification vide No. 598-SE(EE)/PTTII-16/17 dated 08.09.2017 read with the clarification of MHRD contained in memo no. F. No. 1-22/2012-EE-4(P) dated 23.08.2017, if the applicant does not have 50%/ 45% marks in Higher Secondary (10+2) examination.
3. The applicant is required to select his/her preferred institute medium-wise, according to the language(s) studied by him/her in Higher Secondary (10+2) or its equivalent examination. In order to dispel any ambiguity, for example, if an applicant selects a Bengali medium institute, he/she must have studied Bengali (of 100 Marks) in his/her Higher Secondary (10+2) or its equivalent examination. Similarly, if an applicant selects a Hindi/ Urdu/Nepali/ Santhali [in Olchiki script] medium Institute for admission, he/she must have studied Hindi/ Urdu/Nepali/Santhali [in Olchiki script] (of 100 marks) in his/her Higher Secondary (10+2) or its equivalent examination.
Medium of instruction of a recognized institute, affiliated to the Board is illustrated below:
a) No Institute authorized to admit students under this notification, shall admit students of other mediums, i.e. Bengali Medium Institutes will admit students who have studied Higher Secondary or its equivalent course with Bengali and English of 100 marks each. Similarly, a Hindi/Urdu/Nepali/Santhali Medium Institute shall admit students who have studied their Higher Secondary or its equivalent course with Hindi/Urdu/Nepali/Santhali in Olchiki Script of 100 marks each (as the case may be) and English.
b) No applicant shall similarly be able to apply for admission to such a D.EI.Ed. Institute which does not have the medium matching with his/her language other than English, studied in the Higher Secondary (10+2) level, i.e. Bengali/ Hindi/Urdu/Nepali/Santhali.
c) The Board has already notified a medium-wise list of NCTE-recognized and Board affiliated D.EI.Ed. Institutes, including DIETs on the basis of the faculty/teaching staff, appointed medium wise by the Institutes.
d) Each applicant must have also studied English of 100 marks as the second/other language at Higher Secondary level.
e) WBBPE makes it amply clear that no Institute shall admit students of other mediums. Any deviation of the above shall render the admission cancelled and/or rejected.
4. The applicants are requested to provide in the application, one mobile no. with WhatsApp facility and an email Id where she/he will be available for communication and regular updates (instructions/assignments etc.), as and when needed.
5. The intake capacity of each Institute will be as per the approval of the NCTE and shall be displayed against each Institute, listed under the notification for admission, unless otherwise directed.
6. The number of the NCTE recognized and Board affiliated Institutes (medium wise) shall be mentioned as annexure to this notice, thereby disclosing the intake capacity, address and status of the Institute i.e. Government/Government Sponsored/Government Aided/Non-Government Unaided, meant for Male only/Female only/Co-Educational.
7. Supporting documents required for different castes and categories:
a) SC/ST/OBC certificate issued by the competent authority of the Govt. of West Bengal (SC/ST/OBC certificate issued by the authorities of other States shall not be valid).
b) A PwD certificate shall be valid, if it is issued by a Medical Board of a Government Hospital, headed by the Superintendent of the Hospital.
c) Pension/ Service Book/ Certificate as Ex-Servicemen issued by the competent authorities shall be valid for Ex-Serviceman.
8. Reservation of seats:
a) Reservation for respective category in admission for the candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC/PwD/EX-SERVICEMEN category shall be as per the rules.
b) Four Percent (4%) of the seats of a D.EI.Ed. Institute, permitted to admit students, shall be reserved for the applicants who have studied Vocational Course at the Higher Secondary (10+2) Stage and have acquired minimum 50%. For filling up such seats under Vocational Course category no relaxation whatsoever in terms of Caste/PwD/Ex- Servicemen category is admissible.
c) Not more than 5 (five) seats in D.I.E.Ts, Govt./Govt. Sponsored/Govt. Aided Primary Teachers’ Training Institutes will be kept reserved for in-service primary teachers, appointed before 03.09.2001 and having 50% or 45% (as the case may be) at the Higher Secondary (10+2) Examination. Such teachers will have to be duly deputed by the competent authority. Note: In case of non-availability of such candidates the seats shall be filled up amongst the wait-listed candidates in order of merit.
d) Ten (10) percent of the total intake of a Self-financed Non-Government Unaided Institution shall be reserved under ‘Management Quota’. No such reservation will be there in case of a Government/ Government Sponsored/ Govt. Aided Institution. In case of such reservations, admission procedures and other terms and conditions for admission, as prescribed, should also remain same and be maintained strictly. A separate institution-wise merit list for this category will be prepared and maintained.
e) An institute which is allowed to admit both Christian and Non-Christian students shall admit students from each section as per the guidelines in the order.
Note: In case of non-availability of students under one section, the waitlisted students of the corresponding section shall be allowed in order of merit and according to the prescribed guidelines.
f) Ten Percent (10%) of existing seats in admission shall be reserved for EWS candidates as per extant rules of Govt. of West Bengal in this regard.
9. Age:
Upper Age limit as on the first day of July of the year of Notification for such admission shall be 35 Years for General Category candidates, 40 Years for SC and ST candidates, 38 Years for OBC candidates, while for PwD-candidates it shall be 45 years.
The upper age limit for an Ex-Servicemen applicant shall be 55 Years, where as in case of an in-service primary school teacher, appointed prior to 03/09/2001, there shall be no such upper age limit, if he/she is duly recommended by the concerned Chairman of the Primary School Council / Dl of Schools (PE) and has the minimum percentage of marks (50% or 45% as the case may be) in his/her Higher Secondary (10+2) or equivalent Examination.
10. Application Procedure:
The intending applicants, eligible in terms of the eligibility criteria, stipulated in the Notification of the Board, published in the News Papers or official website: https://wbbpe.wb.gov.in shall apply online within and before the stipulated last date, as per the given instructions, annexing/uploading relevant scanned or photocopies of the documents.
A. Visit: https://wbbpe.wb.gov.in
B. Click on the link: “Online Application for Admission to Two Year D.EI.Ed. Course (Regular Mode) for the Session 2025-2027″ and follow the instructions therein carefully and apply for admission.
DOCUMENTS TO BE UPLOADED WITH THE APPLICATION
- Admit Card of Madhyamik Pariksha or equivalent examination as proof of age.
- Mark-sheet of Higher Secondary (10+2) or its equivalent examination.
- Photograph of the applicant.
- Scanned Signature of the applicant.
- Caste & Category certificates (if applicable) (SC/ST/OBC), issued by the competent authorities of the Government of West Bengal. Such Certificates from other States shall not be considered.
- PwD Certificate (if applicable), issued by the competent Medical Boards, headed by the Superintendent of the concerned Government Hospital.
- Pension/Service Book/Certificate as Ex-servicemen (if applicable), issued by the competent authorities.
- Domicile certificate, issued by the concerned BDO for Santhali Medium applicants for the Ramgarh Unit of Jhargram DIET.
Aadhaar Card Number of the applicant (If unavailable, Aadhaar Card Number of father/mother/legal guardian) is to be provided in the specified field of the application format.
11. Procedure for processing the applications:
i. The filled in admission forms will have to be submitted to the listed institutes, selected by the applicants medium wise.
ii. Thereafter, the forms will automatically be transmitted to the login of the institutes.
iii. All the institutes shall have secret log-in and password, provided by the Board, for access online to the submitted forms.
iv. The Heads of the Institutes will, then, verify and scrutinize the particulars submitted by the candidates.
v. They will validate or invalidate [reason(s) to be specified for invalidation] the applications online through such thorough scrutiny and verification.
vi. Next, they will transfer online admission forms to the Board.
vii. The Board will prepare the merit lists digitally, placing all the valid applications in order of merit.
viii. Thereafter, the Board will forward the approved merit lists to the respective Institutes for admission.
ix. The Institutes will intimate the selected candidates from the approved merit lists serially through WhatsApp/ email and also inform them of subsequent steps to be notified by the Board.
12. Calculation of merit:
The name of the examination should be Higher Secondary (10+2) or as mentioned in the mark-sheet of other recognized Boards or Councils. The total marks obtained should be the aggregate of the best five, where applicable, including First or Second Language or both (as the case may be) but excluding EVS (where it is not an elective subject). [For example: A student has passed the Higher Secondary Examination with the following scores:
Language I- 60, Language II-81, Political Science – 68, Geography – 82, History – 62
Philosophy (Optional Elective) – 74, EVS – 88 (not an Elective Subject)
Now the calculation of percentage shall be made on the basis of the best five scores, e.g. {(82+81 +74+68+62)/5} = 367/5 = 73.4%
*For determination of minimum eligibility the Grand Total marks (where applicable) will be converted into percentage. In such cases 500 (five hundred) or 450 (four hundred fifty) (as the case may be) out of 1000 (one thousand) shall mean 50 percent or 45 percent respectively.
Note: In the ‘Best Five Norms’, EVS, if it is not an Elective Subject, shall not be taken for determination of eligibility or merit.
13. Fees Structure:
a. For Unreserved/ Ex-Servicemen/ In-Service Teacher/ Vocational category:-
An application fee of 1000 rupees only per application is required.
b. For SC/ST/PwD category applicants:-
An application fee of 500 rupees only per application is required.
c. For OBC category applicants:-
An application fee of 750 rupees only per application is required.
14. Disciplinary Action:
If any Institute is found to be admitting or has admitted any student/s in violation of the aforesaid norms of the Board, the admission is liable to be cancelled/rejected.
15. Rejection of application/ Admission:
i. Any application, submitted incompletely/illegibly/in a falsified manner is liable to be cancelled without assigning any reason for such cancellation.
ii. The Board reserves the right to cancel any application at any stage in the process and procedures before or after admission, even if the application is validated by the concerned Institute and the consequent admission upon the approval of the Board has been made.
16. For all future communication, the institute shall maintain a database of the selected students including a mobile number with WhatsApp facility and email id where the students may be communicated.
17. Schedule of admission
a. The process of applying online, including submission, along with the uploading of the scanned copies of the following documents (as per given specifications), shall start from 04/07/2025, Friday (12:00 Noon onwards) and continue till 20/07/2025, Sunday (Midnight). The submitted online filled-in application forms along with the scanned copies of the documents mentioned above will be forwarded to the Institute selected by the applicant for scrutiny, verification, and authentication.
b. The Heads of the respective Institutes will transfer the verified and scrutinized applications to the login of the Board (online only) from 21/07/2025 to 25/07/2025 along with the reasons of rejection of applications, if any.
c. The WBBPE will prepare and approve the merit lists digitally and forward the same to the dedicated log-in of the Institute on and from 28/07/2025 to 31/07/2025 for admission.
d. Admission process shall be completed within 12/08/2025.
e. Commencement of classes and also the mode thereof for the new session will be notified later.
18.The existing affiliated institutes who have their unique User ID and password shall use the same Id & Password but the Heads of the newly affiliated D.EI.Ed. Institutes listed for admission under this Notification are requested to contact the Board’s office for getting their unique User ID & Password.
Sd/- Secretary
West Bengal Board of Primary Education
Helpline Numbers: 9883480660/8902081201
No. 432-WBBPE dated 30.06.2025, Source
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