Written by Rucha Kulkarni

Thousands of teachers and non-teaching staff across Pune marched from the Pune Zilla Parishad office to the District Collector’s office on Friday to oppose the Supreme Court judgment on the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), demand the return of the old pension scheme and urgent recruitment of non-teaching staff.

One of the issues raised was imposition of TET, which now mandates that all teachers pass this exam to continue their teaching careers. Shivaji Khandekar, coordinator of the Teacher and Non-Teaching Staff Committee, expressed strong dissatisfaction at the test. “For teachers who have served for 20 to 25 years, this requirement is completely unfair,” he said, adding that teachers appointed before 2013 had never been required to take the test and quest

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