Shillong, Oct 7: The Meghalaya Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Schools Association (MSSASA) will soon file a review petition in the Supreme Court against its September 1 ruling which seeks to make it mandatory for all in-service teachers to clear the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) to continue in service.
The decision was taken at the general body meeting of the association held at Malki ground on Monday.
Speaking to media persons, president of MSSASA Aristotle Rymbai said based on the advice of the legal experts, the association will contest the retrospective application of the judgment, which affects long-serving teachers nearing retirement.
Rymbai explained that the Supreme Court’s judgment was based on the 2010 National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) notification and the 2017 amendments to the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
However, the Education Department had earlier exempted teachers appointed before August 23, 2010, from the state TET (MTET), which the recent verdict has overridden.
The ruling could affect between 10,000 to 15,000 teachers in Meghalaya, out of approximately 43,102 teachers across the state.
According to the MSSASA, the Central TET (CTET) and Meghalaya TET (MTET) are equivalent, and teachers who have cleared CTET need not appear for the state-level test again.
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