ITANAGAR, Oct 15 : With few vacant teaching posts in government colleges to be filled and the academic session already under way, Chief Minister Pema Khandu today handed over Orders of Appointment, along with posting places, to 21 successful candidates of the Assistant Professor Examination 2026 conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC). 
Congratulating the appointees, Khandu said the occasion reflected his Government’s commitment to fair, transparent and merit-based recruitment. Since assuming office, he said, his aim has been to give every government job aspirant a level playing field based purely on merit, an effort he credited to the APPSC and the Arunachal Pradesh Staff Selection Board (APSSB).
“We hurriedly called for giving away the appointment letters along with posting places to all successful Assistant Professors because we cannot delay the process as we are already into middle of the academic session,” he said, adding that immediate joining at the assigned government colleges is of utmost importance.
Turning to the larger purpose of the profession, the Chief Minister said human resources, not infrastructure, are the real yardstick of development, and that the task of building them rests with the State's teachers, who shape its manpower and the future citizens of the State and the country. He asked the new Assistant Professors to shoulder that responsibility as dedicatedly as they had prepared for the examination.
“You on your own chose this profession, prepared for it and appeared for the examination. You worked hard to achieve success. Now it’s your turn to do justice to what you have chosen,” Khandu told them.
The recruitment will fill vacant teaching posts in government colleges across the State under the Department of Education, while opening meaningful employment for the State’s educated youth. 
The APPSC advertised the posts on January 22, 2026, held viva voce for the 21 posts on August 18 and 19, and declared the results on August 19.
Of the 263 applications received across five subjects, 66 candidates were called for interview and 21 were selected, roughly one in every 12 or 13 applicants.
Mathematics and Chemistry each yielded six appointees, followed by Physics with five. Anthropology and Sociology have two each; Sociology drew the largest field, with 86 applications for its two posts, while Anthropology received 32. Chemistry drew 50 applications, Physics 48 and Mathematics 47.
Present on the occasion were Advisor (Education) MutchuMithi, Chief Secretary Manish Kumar Gupta, and the Secretaries of Education and General Administration and parents and relatives of the new appointees.

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