1. Eligibility Criteria of Teachers for State Awards

Committee, duly following the procedural guidelines, timelines, and submit the same with specific recommendations to the Director of School Education, Andhra Pradesh, Amaravati.

• b. Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have completed 10 years of minimum Service.
• c. Normally, retired teachers are not eligible, but those who have served for part of the academic year may be considered if they otherwise fulfil the conditions.
• d. Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have been selected for State Awards earlier are not eligible.
• e. Teachers / Head Masters / Teacher Educators who have charges/disciplinary proceedings/criminal cases are not eligible.
• f. The District Selection Committee should form the verification teams to verify the facts/information provided by the applicant.
• g. In addition to the above categories, the Government have decided to felicitate certain outstandingly performing teachers.
• h. Criteria based on performance: Under this, teachers will be awarded marks on criteria based on performance e.g. initiatives to improve learning outcomes, innovative experiments undertaken, organization of extra and co-curricular activities, use of Teaching.

2. Nominations for State Awards – 2026

The nominations for the selection of teachers to the State Awards-2026 have been invited for the following criteria:

3. Selection Process Timeline – Offline

4. Selection Committees

(a) Divisional Selection Committee

(b) District Selection Committee

(c) State Selection Committee

5. State Level Selection

The State Level Committee selects the teachers for “State Awards” from the Selection lists submitted by the District Selection Committee, duly limiting the No. of awards category wise.

6. Celebration of District Level Best Teacher Awards

The District Level Best Teacher Awards, the selection committee shall recommend not more than 30 teachers in the category of SGT, 20 teachers in the category of SA and 10 teachers in the category of Headmaster for each district as per the above categories.

Further, all the Regional Joint Directors, District Educational Officers, and Additional Project Coordinators of Samagra Shiksha in the state are requested to organise the District level TEACHER’S DAY celebrations at their jurisdictions in a befitting manner as per the existing practice without giving any scope for adverse remarks in the selection of awardees, duly following the local protocol and strict adherence to rules in force.

All the Regional Joint Directors and District Educational Officers in the State are requested to give wide publicity about the programme through newspapers and other local mass media.