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East and West Godavari teachers’ constituency MLC Borra Gopi Murthy connected Friday (June 5, 2026 ) urged the State authorities to instrumentality contiguous steps to code the concerns surrounding the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) request for in-service teachers.
In a practice submitted to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, the MLC requested the authorities to either transportation the Union Ministry of Education to amend the provisions of the Right to Education (RTE) Act relating to TET eligibility oregon behaviour a abstracted TET exclusively for serving teachers.
The entreaty comes successful the aftermath of a Supreme Court judgement mandating that each teachers, but those retiring wrong the adjacent 5 years, indispensable walk the TET examination. According to the MLC, galore teachers who person already completed decades of work whitethorn find it highly hard to suffice successful the existent TET format and syllabus.
He said that portion teachers were making sincere efforts to wide the examination, the existing TET signifier was not suited to experienced in-service teachers who had spent years successful classrooms and acquisition administration.
To code these concerns, Mr. Murthy projected the instauration of a peculiar TET exemplary tailored specifically for serving teachers and suggested that the introspection should absorption lone connected the subjects taught by the teachers alternatively than the broader syllabus prescribed nether the existent TET system.
The MLC further recommended that a azygous minimum qualifying marks beryllium prescribed for each candidates alternatively of varying walk marks based connected caste categories. He besides called for the introspection to beryllium conducted done a manual, pen-and-paper mode alternatively than the existing format.
