Commerce Grads are now Eligible for TET
The latest circular of National Council for Teacher Education has come as a major
relief for lakhs of commerce graduates for setting
them eligible to appear in Teacher's Eligibility Test
from now onwards. Chief minister Ashok Gehlot
made this announcement during foundation stone laying ceremony of Central University
of Rajasthan on 26 April.
"We had requested the Union Ministry to allow Commerce graduates with B.Ed degrees
to appear for Teacher's Eligibility Test. The Union ministry had accepted the request
on grounds that the recruitment process for 50,000 teachers in the state had been
pending as only TET-qualified candidates would have been eligible for the same,"
said Gehlot.
It is learnt that a few Commerce graduates had challenged the state government and
Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education in the high court, following which the Jodhpur
bench of high court had issued stay orders, leading to a halt in recruitment process.
Meanwhile, sources in the board claim that the latest notification from
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) will be communicated to
judiciary in order to restart the process for TET.
In a bid to ensure quality standards under the Right to Education Act, the NCTE
recently made it mandatory for all B.Ed degree-holders desirous of becoming teachers
at elementary level (classes 1-8) to qualify Teacher's Eligibility Test. However,
the notification was not clear about including B.Com. graduates having B.Ed degrees
in the list of eligibles.
Courtesy: daily.bhaskar.com
