Congress Legislative Party Leader Vijay Wadettiwar has formally requested Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to promptly enforce a Supreme Court decision concerning the Teacher Aptitude and Intelligence Test (TAIT) 2022 teacher recruitment process. This action is aimed at addressing alleged injustices faced by candidates from backward classes.
Wadettiwar pointed out that around 8,000 Other Backward Class candidates were unfairly excluded from the recruitment process due to flawed decisions by the state’s Education Department, despite meeting the necessary qualifications. The controversy arose from candidates who, after availing a five percent relaxation in the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), scored higher in the Teacher Aptitude and Intelligence Test (TAIT) than open category candidates.
The Supreme Court, in the case of Chhaya and Others vs. State of Maharashtra, issued its final judgment on March 23, 2026, stating that reserved category candidates outscoring the last open category candidate should be included in the open merit list. Wadettiwar criticized the prohibition of merit-based reserved candidates from competing for open-category seats as unconstitutional and unjust.
Wadettiwar outlined four key demands to ensure fairness for affected educators. These include an immediate review of the entire TAIT-2022 merit list, the timely release of an updated list, the integration of high-scoring reserved-category candidates into the open category, and the allocation of resulting vacancies in reserved categories to eligible candidates from the Other Backward Class and backward classes.
