Over 4.75 lakh candidates including thousands of in-service teachers will appear for the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) in Maharashtra Sunday, marking the first such exam held in the state after the Supreme Court’s September ruling made TET mandatory for both new and serving teachers.

The court stated TET would now be compulsory not only for all fresh appointments to classes 1-8 but for in-service teachers in non-minority schools, who have over five years left before retirement, too. These teachers must clear the test within two years or face compulsory retirement.

Those with below five years of service remaining may continue, but will be ineligible for promotions. While states such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu have signalled plans to file review petitions against the order, Maharashtra r

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