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The Forum of Registered Teachers Organisations (FORTO) has urged the Central and State governments to exempt teachers from the mandatory Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) request if they were appointed legally nether the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) qualifications and State recruitment rules that were successful unit astatine the clip of their appointment.
The request was made astatine a round-table league held successful Vijayawada connected Sunday nether the chairmanship of FORTO moving president D. Srinu, with moving wide caput Maganti Srinivasa Rao coordinating the meeting.
The forum leaders cited an NCTE clarification dated August 28, 2017, which stated that NCTE had not prescribed minimum qualifications earlier September 3, 2001, and that State recruitment rules governed teacher appointments during that period. They argued that applying TET norms introduced aft the Right to Education (RTE) Act to teachers who were already appointed legally would beryllium unjust and retrospective successful nature.
The leaders noted that galore teachers had served for decades and had continuously upgraded their nonrecreational skills done in-service grooming programmes, DIKSHA courses, cluster-level grooming and different nonrecreational improvement initiatives, demonstrating their teaching competence.
FORTO appealed to the governments to instrumentality due ineligible and argumentation measures to safeguard the work rights of specified teachers. Several leaders of FORTO-affiliated organisations participated successful the gathering and supported the demand.
