1.85 Lakh Teachers, Exam Leave for Teachers

Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission is conducting the Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) 2026 from July 2 to 4. The UP government has taken two big decisions for the serving teachers regarding this exam. First, now TET will be conducted for working teachers also. Secondly, serving teachers appearing in UPTET will also get leave from school to take the examination.

This examination will be conducted twice a year. The department has fixed a time limit of 2 years to pass the examination. Even after this, if you are not able to pass the exam, you will lose your job. Even if the age of the teachers is 40-45 years.

1.85 lakh teachers are giving UPTET to save their jobs

On September 1, 2025, the Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Dipankar Dutta and Justice Manmohan ruled that it will now be mandatory for candidates who became primary teachers without passing TET to pass TET. If they do not do so, they will be fired from the job. In such a situation, there are 1.85 lakh candidates who are appearing for the exam to save their jobs.

However, teachers strongly opposed this decision. In this regard, memorandums were sent to the Prime Minister and a demand for amendment in this law was also raised in the Parliament. But all these efforts remained futile in front of the Supreme Court’s decision to make the examination mandatory.

2 teachers died due to stress

There are many teachers who have been teaching for 20-25 years. He says, to what extent is it logical to take the exam again after so much work? Teachers unions claim that two teachers have died due to this tension.

1 lakh 85 thousand teachers will give UP TET

There are 1 lakh 85 thousand 791 candidates in UP TET 2026 who are already working as teachers in basic schools and now want to pass the TET exam. Whereas 18 lakh 08 thousand 870 new candidates will appear in the TET exam.

This year this examination is being conducted at 955 examination centers in 60 districts of the state. A total of 19 lakh 94 thousand 661 candidates will participate in this.

Most centers in Varanasi

According to Sanjay Singh, Deputy Secretary of UP Education Service Selection Commission, the maximum number of 68 exam centers have been made in Varanasi. 1 lakh 27 thousand 239 candidates appeared in the examination at these centres. Whereas 76 thousand 634 candidates are appearing in 53 exam centers made in Prayagraj and 76 thousand 720 candidates are appearing in 45 centers made in the capital Lucknow.

Biometric system and CCTV surveillance

Observers have been sent to every district to conduct the UP TET exam in a fair and transparent manner. Commission members, retired IAS and IPS officers have been sent as observers.

Multi-layer security and biometric iris scan have been implemented at the examination centres. Along with this, the entire examination will also be monitored from the command and control center through CCTV live feed. STF will be deployed to control the copying mafia.

UP TET is happening after four and a half years

UP TET exam is being held after a long gap of four and a half years. Before this, UP TET exam was held in 2022. The paper was leaked in the year 2021, after which the exam could be held in 2022.

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