A week after the state slapped the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) with a show-cause notice to explain why it was flouting the Right To Education (RTE) Act by recruiting teachers who had not cleared the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET), the Corporation has at last scrapped its recruitment drive.

52 English-medium schools run by PMC have been facing a severe shortage of teachers since 2012

“As no one ensured that only TET-qualified candidates were called for interviews during the ongoing recruitment process of primary teachers, we are terminating the whole process. Soon we will initiate a fresh procedure to recruit 100 teachers with proper qualifications as per the guidelines of RTE,” said PMC Commissioner, Kunal Kumar.