Overview
- Kerala has filed a review plea in the Supreme Court challenging the verdict that requires K-TET for teacher appointments and promotions.
- The state has frozen its January 1 order that implemented new K-TET-based appointment and promotion rules and withdrew earlier exemptions.
- The petition asks that teachers who entered service before March 31, 2012 be exempted, seeks permanent relief for NET, SET and PhD holders, and urges that K-TET not block promotions of serving teachers.
- Officials have notified a special K-TET in February 2026 for in-service staff, and the government says no teacher appointed before 2010 will lose their job.
- The actions follow Supreme Court rulings on August 7, 2023 and September 1, 2025 affirming TET as mandatory, with unions warning the changes could affect tens of thousands of teachers as CTET-based eligibility for LP and UP hiring continues.