SANGRUR, Jan. 9 -- Punjab Education Department on Thursday stayed the station selection process for promoted teachers. In a letter dated January 8, 2026, the director of school education (secondary) Punjab stated that the station selection process currently underway following promotion orders issued on November 12, 2025, December 23-24, 2025 and January 4-5, 2026 is hereby stayed until further notice. Punjab higher and school education secretary Anandita Mittra said, "There are certain judicial judgments that we must consider carefully. That's why we are referring the matter to the office of the advocate general," she said. Democratic Teachers Front state president Vikramdev Singh said that they met with the director of Primary Education on Wednesday. Singh said that while (elementary teacher training) ETT teachers' names were included in the station allocation list the names of head teachers and centre head teachers were not even considered. He said that imposing the TET requirement which was introduced in 2011 under the Right to Education Act-on teachers recruited before that year is unjustified. This follows a ruling by the Supreme Court in September, which made it mandatory for all in-service teachers of Classes 1 to 8 in non-minority schools to clear the TET within two years. The apex court held that this applies even to those appointed before the 2011 mandate. Under the order, only teachers with less than five years until retirement are exempt from taking the test....