NCTE Guidelines Binding, Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) Not Mandatory:SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the qualifications prescribed by the National Council for Teachers’ Education were binding on the states and Teachers’ Eligibility Test is not mandatory.A bench of Justice AK Goel and Justice UU Lalit held so, while deciding an appeal filed by the State of Uttar Pradesh against the Allahabad High Court verdict holding the state’s. The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the qualifications prescribed by the National Council for Teachers’ Education were binding on the states and Teachers’ Eligibility Test is not mandatory. A bench of Justice AK Goel and Justice UU Lalit held so, while deciding an appeal filed by the State of Uttar Pradesh against the Allahabad High Court verdict holding the state’s criterion of ‘quality point marks’ as one at variance with the NCTE. The question that lay before the apex court was validity of the decision of the state of Uttar Pradesh in prescribing qualifications for recruitment of teachers at variance with the NCTE guidelines on the ground of repugnancy of state law with the Central law on a subject falling in concurrent list.