TET exam on July 23

The government has decided to hold Teacher Eligibility Test in July for the benefit of those who recently passed B Ed and D Ed to make them eligible to take part in the recruitment to teacher posts in government schools.

Announcing this here on Wednesday Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Education Kadiam Srihari said recruitment of teachers to fill the vacancies in the government schools would be taken up soon after the TET results are announced in August. The Deputy Chief Minister said that the



guidelines of NCTE for recruiting teachers in government schools stipulate that the candidate should have passed TET to participate in the recruitment process. 

About 8,100 candidates have passed the D Ed and 18,000 passed B Ed this year. He said the students had requested the government to conduct TET to enable them to become eligible to apply for teacher posts. The Telangana State Public Service Commission would take up recruitment for 8,792 teacher posts in August, this year.