Overview
- The Supreme Court ruled on May 29 that clearing the Teachers’ Eligibility Test is mandatory for in‑service teachers and set a compliance deadline of August 31, 2028.
- A West Bengal teachers’ platform has written to School Education Minister Dipak Burman asking the state to press the Centre for an exemption for teachers appointed before August 23, 2010 and says about 90,000 primary and upper‑primary staff are affected.
- Tamil Nadu’s government moved a resolution in the state assembly seeking a permanent exemption for the same pre‑2010 cohort and estimated roughly 328,701 government teachers could be hit by the rule.
- Teachers in West Bengal have announced plans to intensify protests with demonstrations at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar starting in September while no formal relief from the Centre has been reported.
- If teachers fail to clear the TET by the 2028 deadline they risk job loss or forced retirement and the dispute has created a clash between state political pressure and the court’s quality‑assurance judgment on school hiring.