Telangana government school teachers can seek transfer from agency areas to plain areas subject to availability of teachers in schools in agency areas. However, there is no restriction on transfer of teachers from plain areas to agency areas.
A division bench of the Hyderabad High Court comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice J. Uma Devi passed an order to this effect after hearing a series of writ petitions filed by teachers seeking transfer from agency areas to plain areas and vice versa. Extensive arguments were made by counsel for the teachers and Additional Advocate General J. Ramchander Rao on various points related to transfer of teachers.
The Additional AG maintained that the government was ready to accept requests of teachers for transfer from agency areas to plain areas. “But we are equally concerned about the schools in agency areas as the pass percentage in schools of these areas is very low,” Mr. Rao observed.
He observed that while the government was ready to consider requests of the teachers, securing qualitative school education to people in agency areas was of paramount importance to it.
In writ petitions of teachers seeking transfer within the newly formed districts, the bench said it would hear the arguments on Wednesday and pass an order before the counselling for transfer begins on June 26. The bench heard different points on the transfer vis-a-vis Presidential Order presented by the petitioners.
