Editor,
We wish to draw attention to the upcoming TGT recruitment exam, which is supposed to be held in July 2026. Time and again we have been seeing in your Readers’ Forum that many genuine, concerned aspirants have been expressing the importance and inclusion of TET exam in the recruitment process, but what has been sidelines is giving equal opportunity as per the fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution, which states that everyone has the right to equality.
This fundamental right can be justified when the exam is conducted in a fair manner, which can only be achieved by allowing all BEd students, whether or not they have cleared the APTET/CTET, to sit for the exam.
We have witnessed a myriad of students who are in final year of BEd semester, and there are hundreds of aspirants who have not cleared the TET; yet they are happy that after six or seven years the state government has given a common competition platform.
The qualification is the same, but if TET is made mandatory, then many will be deprived and will have to wait another six years or a decade.
Moreover, many aspirants are already taking coaching and have paid the fees for both papers, and the parents also anticipate that their children would sit for the exam. It is very good to comply with the teachers’ recruitment rules and regulations, but if TET is made mandatory this year, it will be an injustice because in the last PGT exam also it was not made mandatory.
We unequivocally state that TET be made compulsory not from this year but from next year onwards, with an advance notification issued by the commission.
We fervently request to the commission and Chief Minister Pema Khandu to take this matter very seriously by giving equal opportunity to all the BEd passed students this year, and make the changes next year.
Genuine, concerned aspirants