Srinagar, Feb. 27 -- J&K school education department on Thursday put the order of assigning nodal agency for conduct of teacher eligibility test in abeyance, a day after the education minister announced that there was no immediate plan to conduct the test.

In a communication from civil secretariat, commissioner secretary Ram Niwas Sharma put the department's February 23 order in abeyance till further orders.

In the order issued by the school education department, the Jammu and Kashmir Board of School Education (JKBOSE)/State School Standards Authority (SSSA) was designated as the nodal agency for conducting the TET across the Union territory.

In September 2025, the Supreme Court made it mandatory for in-service teachers of classes 1 to...