State to Move SC Against Retrospective TET Mandate

FOLLOWING Kerala's lead, the Tamil Nadu government will file a review petition in the Supreme Court against its September 1 judgment making the Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET) mandatory even for those appointed before 2011 as its implementation would "cripple the school education system."

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The apex court had ruled that all teachers, except those with less than five years of service, must clear TET to continue in their jobs, with no exceptions even for promotions. In a statement, the school education department said the state fully supports TET as a compulsory requirement for all future appointments, but imposing it retrospectively on teachers already in service has caused "grave concern." Thousands of teachers were recruited strictly in line with the laws and rules prevailing at the time of thei