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The Government of Tamilnadu has constituted the Teachers’ Recruitment Board to conduct various Test for the selection of candidates under different sectors such as Secondary Grade Teachers, BT, PG, Special Teachers, Computer Instructors, Agricultural Instructors and AEEOs in the respective Departments of School Education and Elementary Education Department, Adi Dravidar and Tribal Welfare Department, Backward classes, Most Backward classes and Minorities Welfare Department, Social Defence Department, Chennai Corporation and Coimbatore Corporation. Junior Lecturers, Lecturers and Senior Lecturers in SCERT and in Higher Education Department for the post of Asst.Professors, Lectures in Engineering Colleges and Govt Arts and Science Colleges, Govt polytechnic and in Govt Law Colleges respectively. Following the guidelines of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, the TRB took up the responsibility of conducting TNTET (Tamilnadu Teacher Eligibility Test) from 2012 onwards.

The Teachers Recruitment Board was constituted in 1987 as an institution with the objective of selecting teachers with good ability and aptitude. The Board recruits teachers through various means depending upon the categories and orders issued by the Government on method to be adopted for recruitment. The recruitment done by the Teachers Recruitment Board is very transparent as it applies the Optical Mark Reader (OMR) techniques of evaluation. Till now, 1,56,839 school and college teachers have been recruited. Besides, Teachers Recruitment Board is the State Nodal Agency to conduct the Tamil Nadu Teacher Eligibility Test (TNTET). Details about the recruitment process of the Teachers Recruitment Board are being regularly updated at the Teachers Recruitment Board Official Website http://trb.tn.nic.in