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The Cabinet connected Wednesday decided to regularise schoolteachers without K-TET (Kerala-Teacher Eligibility Test) eligibility.
Teachers appointed earlier September 1, 2025, but yet to beryllium regularised and those with akin qualifications specified arsenic State Eligibility Test (SET), National Eligibility Test (NET), MEd, MPhil, and PhD, volition get impermanent approval, taxable to the information that they volition wide K-TET wrong 2 years, Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty said astatine a property league successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Wednesday.
The determination is taxable to the apex tribunal determination connected the revision petition filed by the authorities successful the matter.
Teachers volition person to springiness a enslaved astatine the clip of the support that if they failed to suffice K-TET wrong the stipulated clip frame, support for their assignment would beryllium cancelled and they would instrumentality the benefits availed of by them.
On promotion
However, a determination connected teacher promotions would beryllium taken aft ineligible sentiment from the Advocate General, the Minister said.
According to the Supreme Court’s September 1 judgment, teachers with little than 5 years of work could proceed till status without clearing K-TET. However, K-TET was indispensable for promotions. Those near with much than 5 years of work had to wide K-TET wrong 2 years of the day of the ruling to stay successful service. Else, they could discontinue oregon beryllium compulsorily retired with terminal benefits.
As per figures connected August 31, a full of 75,015 of the 1.46 lakh teachers successful work did not person K-TET eligibility, the Minister had said astatine a property league past month.
Reacting to the Minister’s announcement, the Kerala Pradesh School Teachers’ Association (KPSTA) alleged that his statements were made successful presumption of the upcoming Assembly elections and lacked sincerity since a January 1 bid blocking teachers’ appointments and promotions successful authorities and aided schools had not been withdrawn. Even promotions of teachers retiring this twelvemonth had been blocked.
