Teachers Qualifying TET from March 2019 and Sept 2025 Eligible for Service and Promotions: Bombay HC

The teachers qualifying between March 31, 2019, and September 1, 2025, are allowed to continue their service and are eligible for promotions, says Bombay High Court. Check details here

Teachers Qualifying TET from March 2019 and Sept 2025 Eligible for Service and Promotions

TET Qualification 2025: The Bombay High Court has ordered that teachers who passed the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) after the March 2019 deadline can continue their service and will also be eligible for promotions, as long as they were appointed after TET became mandatory in 2013. The Bombay High Court also stated that teachers who qualified TET between March 31, 2019, and September 1, 2025, can continue working.

Those who have not yet qualified will be given two years to do so. TET aspirants must note that the Court has confirmed that the CTET qualification will also be considered equal to the TET. The court has also overturned earlier orders denying transfers of teachers from unaided to aided posts. It said that once teachers have their TET or CTET qualification certificates, their eligibility cannot be questioned. Transfers rejected earlier for not clearing TET before March 31, 2019 will now be allowed if the teachers have qualified.  

The ruling came during the hearing of petitions filed by Sagar Dattatray Chorghe and Sangeeta Ramchandra Salunke, both appointed in 2013. Although they did not clear the test initially, they later qualified Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) in 2021. Their transfer requests to aided posts had been blocked by state authorities due to missing the deadline.

TET Mandatory for Teachers

The court referred to the Supreme Court’s ruling that TET is mandatory, but teachers who pass it later should not lose their jobs or not get promotions. Based on this, the High Court decided that teachers appointed after 2013 cannot be dismissed or denied promotions just because they qualified TET exam late.

The bench has also ordered authorities to approve the transfers of the petitioners and to grant service benefits, including issuing Shalarth-ID cards, provided no other legal impediments exist. This ruling changes the court’s earlier 2021 decision that disqualified teachers from transfers, approvals, or promotions who missed the March 31, 2019 deadline.

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