Writ petition challenges TRB notification on TET MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday has sought a reply from the National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE) as its notification regarding teachers' eligibility test (TET), paves way for even a failed candidate to be appointed as school teachers. A petition was filed by one Gibson, the correspondent of CMS Montgomery Primary School in Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli district, seeking relaxation to reserved categories of SC/ST, OBC and differently-abled (DA) people in TET, based on the notification issued by NCTE on February 11, 2011. When the matter came up for hearing, the petitioner's counsel argued that on May 22, this year, the Teachers' Recruitment Board (TRB) issued a notification fixing a minimum of 60% as qualifying marks in TET to all categories of candidates including SC/ST, OBC and DA, which was illegal. According to the TRB, a person who secures 60% or more in the TET paper I ex...