Chandigarh, Aug. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has quashed provisions of 2024 notification of the Haryana government that limited validity of State Teachers Eligibility Test (STET) certificates to future recruitments.

The HC bench of justice HS Brar said that the government erred in giving prospective effect to the August 6, 2024, notification and that the same was notified in direct conflict with the June 9, 2021, notification by the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), which explicitly mandates retrospective application

Prior to 2024 notification, these certificates were valid for seven years. However, following the NCTE notification, the government in August 2024 announced that these certificates will have lifetim...