PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE/ Dehradun

The Uttarakhand government will file a review petition in the Supreme Court against its order in which clearance of Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) level I examination has been made mandatory for all the primary school teachers. A decision in this regard was taken in the meeting of the State cabinet chaired by the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday. The SC order had put a question mark over the fate of more than 17,000 government school teachers in Uttarakhand.

An SC bench comprising justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Manmohan had passed the order on September 1 this year. The bench also held that those in-service teachers having less than five years of service left will not have compulsion of TET examination clearance. However, for promotio

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