Thousands Qualified, But Vacancies Remain Unfilled: T-TET Aspirants Protest Over Teacher Recruitment Delay in Tripura

By Our Correspondent

Agartala, December 26, 2025

In 2025, a wave of hope swept through the classrooms and households of Tripura when the long-awaited results of the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (T-TET) were announced. After years of intense preparation, nearly 46,000 aspirants appeared for the examination. However, the results highlighted just how rigorous the test had become, only 368 candidates cleared T-TET-I, while 1,488 candidates qualified in T-TET-II.

For those who succeeded, the achievement was more than an academic milestone. It carried dreams of becoming teachers, serving children across the state, and securing a stable future through public service.

But as months passed, that hope slowly turned into deep frustration.

Despite qualifying the mandatory eligibility test, T-TET pass-outs allege that the state government has failed to initiate timely recruitment. Very few teaching posts were created, even as government schools across Tripura continue to struggle with an acute shortage of teachers. For many candidates, years of hard work, financial strain, and personal sacrifice appeared to have gone unnoticed.

An RTI reply issued by the Directorate of Elementary Education, Government of Tripura, dated November 21, 2025, has further intensified the debate. According to the official RTI response, the Elementary Education Department currently has 1,606 vacant posts of Undergraduate Teachers for Classes I to V and 2,703 vacant posts of Graduate Teachers for Classes VI to VIII, as per revised state norms.

The revelation has raised serious questions among qualified candidates and education observers alike. If thousands of sanctioned posts are lying vacant, why has large-scale recruitment not been initiated, they ask.

With no other option left, T-TET qualified candidates have taken to the streets, holding their T-TET certificates as symbols of both achievement and anguish. Their protests are not demands for special favors, but appeals for justice, dignity, and transparency. Protesters are demanding immediate recruitment drives, adequate creation and filling up of posts, and clarity on the future of T-TET qualified candidates.

Many protesters also question the relevance of the eligibility test itself. “What is the value of qualifying T-TET if there are no jobs to follow?” ask the candidates, expressing fear that T-TET pass-outs may be reduced to mere tools in vote politics rather than being treated as future builders of the education system.

Adding to their concerns is the long gap between examinations. The last T-TET examination was conducted in 2022, and after a gap of three years, the next examination was held in 2025. Candidates argue that such delays, combined with poor recruitment planning, have left an entire generation of trained youth in uncertainty.

As the protests continue, they carry both pain and hope, pain born from prolonged neglect, and hope that the government will finally listen. Thousands of qualified young men and women across Tripura now wait for decisive action, believing that a state serious about education cannot afford to ignore its teachers any longer.

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