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IOCL Apprentices Recruitment 2026 for Bongaigaon Refinery and Guwahati Refinery is a combined Assam-region apprenticeship opportunity under Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), one of the largest public sector energy companies in the country. This recruitment is based on two separate official refinery notifications issued on 15 March 2026: BGR/APPR/2026/02 for Bongaigaon Refinery and GR/P/APP/2025-26/4 for Guwahati Refinery. Together, the two units have notified 109 apprenticeship seats, of which 69 are at Bongaigaon Refinery and 40 are at Guwahati Refinery. Since the recruitment is spread across two different unit notifications, your database entry should explain that candidates are effectively applying against unit-wise opportunities, not a single uniform seat matrix.

This is an apprenticeship engagement under the Apprentices Act, not a regular permanent appointment. That point should be written clearly because many users confuse apprenticeship notifications with direct jobs. IOCL has specifically stated that on completion of the apprenticeship period, the Corporation will have no obligation to offer employment, and the apprentice cannot claim a right to regular employment merely on the basis of having completed training. Even so, these refinery apprenticeship programmes remain valuable because they provide structured training in chemical plant operations, boiler systems, diploma engineering streams and refinery-related technical functions under a major PSU environment. For candidates from Assam and nearby areas, such apprenticeship exposure can strengthen future eligibility and practical industry profile.

The total number of seats in this combined row is 109. Bongaigaon Refinery has notified 69 seats across the following trades and disciplines: Trade Apprentice - Attendant Operator (Chemical Plant), Trade Apprentice (Boiler), Technician Apprentice - Chemical and Technician Apprentice - Instrumentation. The official seat matrix for Bongaigaon shows 34 seats for Attendant Operator (Chemical Plant), 15 seats for Boiler, 10 seats for Technician Apprentice - Chemical and 10 seats for Technician Apprentice - Instrumentation. Guwahati Refinery has notified 40 seats across Trade Apprentice - Attendant Operator (Chemical Plant), Trade Apprentice (Boiler), Technician Apprentice - Chemical, Technician Apprentice - Mechanical and Technician Apprentice - Instrumentation. The Guwahati unit seat matrix shows 13, 8, 11, 4 and 4 seats respectively for these codes. Writing the vacancy table in a proper refinery-wise format makes the page much more useful than simply saying 109 posts.

The educational qualification also changes according to code and trade. For the Attendant Operator (Chemical Plant) and Boiler trade apprentice positions, the qualification is 3-year B.Sc with subjects such as Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry or Industrial Chemistry as mentioned in the unit notifications. For the Technician Apprentice - Chemical positions, candidates need a 3-year Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Petrochemical Engineering, Chemical Technology or Refinery and Petrochemical Engineering as applicable. For Technician Apprentice - Mechanical, the required qualification is a 3-year Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. For Technician Apprentice - Instrumentation, the eligible diplomas include Instrumentation Engineering, Instrumentation & Electronics, Instrumentation & Control Engineering or Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering. Because the qualifications are trade-specific, a quality page should not summarise the row with only B.Sc / Diploma required. That kind of vague wording leads to unnecessary applications and user confusion.

The age limit is common across both refinery notifications. The minimum age is 18 years and the maximum age for General / EWS candidates is 24 years as on 28 February 2026. Upper age relaxation is available for SC, ST, OBC (NCL) and PwBD candidates as per Government guidelines. The official notifications also use 28 February 2026 as the date of reckoning for possession of qualification and age criteria. This should be stated clearly because apprenticeship applicants often assume the age is counted on the last date of submission, which is not the case here.

One of the most important strengths of this notification is that the selection methodology is clearly stated. IOCL has expressly said that there shall be no written test. Selection is based on the percentage of marks in descending order in the prescribed qualification applicable to the trade or discipline. In case of tie in percentage, date of birth is used as the next tie-breaker, with senior candidates being placed higher, and if the date of birth is the same, marks in matriculation are used. The unit notifications also mention that preference shall be given to candidates applying for apprenticeship training for the first time. This is exactly the kind of high-value information candidates look for, and it should be written in a clean manner instead of hiding inside a copied block of legal text.

The recruitment process also includes document verification and pre-engagement medical fitness. Shortlisted candidates will be called for document verification based on their position in the merit list and the number of seats in each trade. Only those candidates who are declared fit in the pre-engagement medical examination will be issued the offer of engagement. The notifications also warn that candidates who furnish false information at any stage can have their candidature cancelled and may face further action. This makes the apprenticeship page more trustworthy when these practical compliance steps are explained clearly.

The online application process is slightly more technical than normal PSU recruitment because both Step I and Step II have to be completed. Candidates must first register on the appropriate apprenticeship portal - NAPS for specific trade apprentice codes and NATS for technician apprentice codes - and then apply against the correct refinery establishment opportunity. After that, candidates are also required to fill the Microsoft Form mentioned in the respective notifications. The official notifications clearly state that merely registering on NAPS / NATS is not enough; the extra online form has to be completed as well. This is a critical practical point that should be prominently written on your page because many users miss the second step and later assume they have applied successfully.

The application window for both unit notifications opens on 15 March 2026 at 10:00 AM and closes on 22 March 2026 at 05:00 PM. The tentative list of candidates called for document verification is to be published on 24 March 2026. The tentative document verification dates are 26 to 27 March 2026 for Bongaigaon Refinery and 26 March 2026 for Guwahati Refinery. The stipend is payable as per the Apprentices Act, Apprentices Rules and IOCL guidelines. No separate application fee is mentioned in the official refinery notifications, which effectively makes this a no-fee application process from the user side apart from any portal-side registration steps.

From a content quality point of view, the best version of this row is one that makes the dual-notification structure easy to understand: two refinery units, one combined total, trade-wise seats, no written test, merit by marks, NAPS / NATS plus Microsoft Form, and unit-wise document verification schedule. That is the structure used in the updated SQL below, while keeping your original slug unchanged.