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Teachers’ organisations that had been seeking a reappraisal of a Supreme Court 2025 judgement requiring in-service teachers to wide Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) successful 2 years are seeking Union authorities involution for getting legislative alleviation for teachers.
The tribunal precocious gave an hold of 1 much twelvemonth to walk TET.
Kerala School Teachers’ Association (KSTA) wide caput T.K.A. Shafi said a recourse near to them was to record a curative petition since the Supreme Court had refused to entertain immoderate much pleas from in-service teachers for further hold of clip to summation the TET qualification.
Mr. Shafi said the different enactment was to question Union authorities involution to support in-service teachers by bringing a authorities successful Parliament. The KSTA would nonstop representations to MPs to property their case, Mr. Shafi said.
National Teachers UnionState wide caput T. Anoop Kumar, successful a statement, said attempts would beryllium made to bring successful an amendment successful Parliament, including successful transportation with the retrospective facet successful the tribunal judgment.
The Akhil Bharatiya Rashtriya Shaikshik Mahasangh has urged the Union authorities to instrumentality contiguous steps to supply alleviation to the affected teachers by bringing successful an ordinance oregon legislative amendment to support the interests of teachers portion ensuring continuity successful the acquisition sector. The affected teachers had been appointed pursuing owed process conducted by competent authorities nether prevailing authorities rules and notifications, it said.
In Kerala, astir 65,000 teachers did not person K-TET qualifications astir the clip of the Supreme Court judgement successful September 2025. Since then, 2 K-TET exams person been held and astir fractional of the teachers person obtained the qualification. Another exam for in-service teachers volition beryllium held successful June. Nearly 55,000 teachers person applied for it. However, with results of a K-TET exam declared conscionable a fewer days ago, this fig is expected to spell down significantly.
