High Court: Techies with Bachelor\'s qualification eligilbe for TGT, PGT

HYDERABAD: Division Bench of the Telangana High Court made it clear that the BE and B.Tech degree candidates with an additional B.Ed degree are eligible for the posts of Trained Graduate Teachers (TGT) and Post Graduate Teachers ( PGT).

The bench headed by Chief Justice Satishchandra Sharma upheld the single judge court’s orders to this effect, passed some time ago.

It was in 2019 that Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili directed the recruitment authority to accept the engineering students for the above posts, while disposing of a challenging the notification issued for filling up the posts of TGT and PGT in Residential Educational Institutions Societies (general recruitment), by
the Telangana Residential Educational Institutions Recruitment Board.

The said notification was issued on June 30, 2018 for recruitment. It stated that only such candidates who have passed B.A., B.Sc., B.Com. are eligible to apply for the post of TGT.

The authorities ought to have included “graduation in any field,” instead of confining to only B.A., B.Sc and B.Com, was the aggrieved candidates’contention.

The single judge had ordered that the candidates who studied B.Tech along with B.Ed should be eligible. This order was challenged before the division bench through an appeal. However, the HC bench declined to interfere in the single judge’s order.