law: Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
  23. Qualifications
  
  for appointment and terms and conditions of service of teachers.-
  1.  Any
  
  person possessing such minimum qualifications, as laid down by an academic
  
  authority, authorised by the Central Government, by notification, shall be
  
  eligible for appointment as a teacher.
  2.  Where
  
  a State does not have adequate institutions offering courses or training in
  
  teacher education, or teachers possessing minimum qualifications as laid down
  
  under sub-section (1) are not available in sufficient numbers, the Central
  
  Government may, if it deems necessary, by notification, relax the minimum
  
  qualifications required for appointment as a teacher, for such period, not
  
  exceeding five years, as may be specified in that notification:
  Provided that a teacher who, at the commencement
  
  of this Act, does not possess minimum qualifications as laid down under
  
  sub-section (1), shall acquire such minimum qualifications within a period of
  
  five years.
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  3.  The
  
  salary and allowances payable to, and the terms and conditions of service of,
  
  teachers shall be such as may be prescribed