The School Education Department published the rules of the test before the Cabinet decided what the rules were. Two ministers then spent five weeks fighting over whether Bhojpuri, Angika and Magahi count as Jharkhand languages, while applications quietly opened.
On March 26, 2026 the Jharkhand School Education and Literacy Department issued the JTET 2026 Niyamavali with CM Hemant Soren's approval, and on April 21 it opened online applications — well before the Cabinet had actually approved any of it. When the Cabinet finally took up the file, ministers Radhakrishna Kishore and Deepika Pandey reopened the question of whether Bhojpuri, Angika and Magahi belonged in a Jharkhand teacher eligibility test, the rules were withdrawn, applications were halted, and the exam slipped to August or September. On April 28 the Cabinet approved the rules at last, slotted between 14 other proposals, five weeks after the state had begun advertising the exam they govern. The aspirants now know exactly which languages they're being tested in, which is more than the government did when it asked them to apply.