NHM Assam Medical Officer Recruitment 2026: 78 Posts

NHM Assam Medical Officer (MBBS) Recruitment 2026: Overview

The notice comes from the Office of the Mission Director, NHM Assam, at the ICMR Building in Hengrabari, Guwahati. NHM runs a large share of Assam's primary and community health centres, sub-divisional hospitals, and various vertical health programmes, and it's these facilities that Medical Officers hired through this drive are meant to fill gaps in. It's a contractual posting, not a regular government appointment, and the advertisement itself flags that the vacancy count can shift by the time recruitment actually happens — so read 78 as the number on paper today, not a locked-in figure.

Worth noting: an earlier advertisement for this same post, issued in December 2025 under a different reference number, has been cancelled outright. If you applied against that one, there's nothing in this notice suggesting it carries over — apply again under the current advertisement. And since NHM Assam runs more than one recruitment at a time, it's worth checking the wider job listings rather than assuming this is the only opening, especially if an aggregator site is where you first heard about it.

NHM Assam Medical Officer Vacancy and Pay

78 vacancies, Rs. 55,000 a month, paid as a flat consolidated amount rather than a pay band with yearly increments — which is how NHM structures most of its contractual hiring. The advertisement doesn't split these 78 posts by district or by category, so there's no way to know from this notice alone where you'd actually be posted. That detail usually surfaces later, once shortlisting starts, so keep an eye on the official website rather than guessing at a location now.

Eligibility Criteria for NHM Assam Medical Officer 2026

Educational Qualification

You need an MBBS degree from a recognised medical college, plus registration with the Medical Council of India (MCI) or the Assam Medical Council (AMC), and at least one year of experience. NHM Assam is fairly blunt about this in the notice: without the qualification and experience, don't apply — and even if you do meet the minimum bar, that alone doesn't get you shortlisted.

Age Limit

The cutoff is 50 years, reckoned as on 1 April 2026. If you're close to that line and want to double-check where you stand, the age calculator will do the maths for you, and the eligibility checker can walk through the qualification and experience conditions together before you commit to applying.

Application Fee

None. NHM Assam isn't charging anything to apply for this post.

How to Apply for NHM Assam Medical Officer Recruitment

Everything happens online, through the NHM Assam recruitment portal. In practice that means:

• Open the application link and pick the Medical Officer (MBBS) post.
• Enter your personal, educational, and registration details — carefully, since a typo in your MCI/AMC registration number is the kind of thing that comes back to bite you later.
• Upload your documents: MBBS degree proof and MCI/AMC registration, at minimum.
• Go through the form once more before hitting submit. There's no mention of a correction window in the advertisement, so treat the first submission as final.

Get your scans ready before you start the form rather than mid-application. If a certificate file is too large or the wrong format for the portal, the compress PDF and resize image tools handle that in a couple of minutes.

Selection Process

NHM Assam will put out the interview or selection test schedule on its website, along with a provisional shortlist — the advertisement doesn't mention a written exam stage, just shortlisting followed by an interview or selection test. Exactly what that test looks like isn't spelled out yet, so it's better to wait for the published schedule than to guess at a format.

One thing the notice is explicit about: no individual call letters go out, and no TA/DA is paid for attending the interview or test. That puts the responsibility on you to keep checking the website yourself — there's no personal notification coming.

Application Timeline

Just under two weeks, start to finish: applications opened 9 September 2026 and close 22 September 2026. That's a tight window for gathering documents and registration proof, so it's worth starting well before the last day rather than after. The interview or selection test date hasn't been announced — NHM Assam says that, and the shortlist, will follow once applications close.

Related Assam Health Recruitment

If you're tracking MBBS openings in Assam beyond this one, the NHM Assam Compulsory Rural Posting 2026 notice and the MHRB Assam recruitment for 560 Medical & Health Officer posts are both live right now and aimed at the same pool of candidates. The full list of current openings is on the Assam job page.