SHILLONG, March 24 -- Over 25,000 in-service teachers in Meghalaya must pass the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) to comply with a Supreme Court order in September 2025, state education minister Lahkmen Rymbui said on Monday as the government began accepting applications from teachers for the test.

Rymbui, however, underlined that the test was not for teachers terminated in connection with irregularities in the recruitment of lower primary teachers in 2008-9 when white correction fluid was used to favour selected candidates.

A probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) later led to the termination of 246 teachers in the initial phases. Later, over 260 more teachers were also sacked.

"There are two separate issues. those tainted t...