Ludhiana, March 15 -- The Punjab State Teacher Eligibility Test (PSTET) will be conducted on Sunday amid protests and boycott calls by several teacher unions. The district administration has set up 23 examination centres for PSTET-II and 19 centres for PSTET-I to conduct the test in two sessions.

The examination comes in the backdrop of large protests by teachers across Punjab. Last week, several teachers gathered in Chandigarh to oppose the eligibility test requirement, arguing that experienced teachers should not be asked to re-establish their eligibility after decades of service.

In Ludhiana district, some schools have openly boycotted the test. Teachers at Government Primary Schools in Lohara and Jawahar Nagar said they have decided...