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Tamil Nadu on Tuesday (September 30, 2025) became one of the first states to review the Supreme Court’s judgment, which gave teachers two possibilities – to qualify for testing (TET) in two years or to be compulsorily retired.
September 1, 2025, two judges of the judges of Judges Dipankar Datta and Manmohan appealed to the extraordinary powers of the court pursuant to Article 142 of the Constitution in order to direct that teachers throughout the country have to go through aunt in two years.
The court justified that the 2009 RTE Act, which was introduced since 2010, required the teachers to clean up this. The bench provided teachers for less than five years to retire so that it was not taken.
“These are teachers hired before adopting the law RTE and for more than five years to retire for supplementary pension insurance are concerned, they will be obliged to qualify aunt within two years of date to continue service.
Several states, from Uttar Pradesh to Keral, expressed their intention to seek review of the judgment.
Tamil Nadu filed a late evening in his petition and represented a higher lawyer P. Wilson and advocate Sabarish Subramanium, said the judgment affects about four lakh teachers in the state. If he was implemented on Earth, the state would have to testify to “classrooms without teachers”. Children would eventually suffer because teachers would focus more on their preparations for the next two years, forced to save a living.
The state claimed that law and standards RTE cannot be used retrospectively. In the review, he claimed that several state governments, including Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Odisha, were awarded in these countries relaxation according to Section 23 (2) of the RTE Act with regard to the lack of trained teachers and insufficiency of teachers’ education institutions.
“The problems caused are not limited to the pedagogical community. The status of Tamil Nadu itself employs 4.49 850 teachers in the government and supported schools, of which 3.90 458 is not qualified if the instructions are performed by direct conflict that are made by direct conflict. A creation, a creation that is a direct conflict, which is direct conflicts, which is a creation that is a direct conflict, a creation that is a direct conflict, a creation that is a direct conflict, which is a constitution that guarantees fundamental right to education.
The state argued that “although the goal of increasing the quality of teaching is accepted as legitimate, convincing denominators before 2010 to go through the aunt for pain disqualification is obviously disproportionate”.
The state recommended “less disturbing alternatives”, such as training in the area, building capacity, repetition courses or bridging programs to achieve the same goal without extinguishing and destabilizing the education system.
Published – September 20, 2025 23:37
