The government of Telangana has given its nod for teachers’ transfers in the State and the process will go on till July 16 commencing on Tuesday. Deputy Chief Minister K. Srihari, who also holds the education portfolio, released the schedule of the transfer process on Tuesday.
He said that all teachers who had put in two years of service in the same school would be eligible for opting for transfer, but it would be compulsory for teachers who had put in eight years of work at one place.
Similarly, transfer would be mandatory for headmasters who had completed five years working in the same school and the decisions were taken in consultation with the teachers’ associations, Mr. Srihari said.
The Education Minister ruled out the possibility of deputation or transfer of teachers from other districts to Ranga Reddy, which includes most of the areas in and around Hyderabad, as the number of teachers working in the non-local category in the district was beyond the limit. Rubbishing the reports of irregularities in teachers transfers, the Minister said only 19 transfers were done so far including 16 within the districts.
The Deputy Chief Minister also hinted that conduct of District Selection Committee (DSC) test for recruitment of teachers was likely to be delayed further as the exact number of vacancies would be known only after the completion of rationalisation, for which a GO was issued on Monday. Once the rationalisation was completed, transfers of headmasters, promotion of school assistants (SAs) as headmasters, transfers of SAs, promotion of secondary grade teachers (SGTs) as SAs and transfer of SGTs would follow, he explained.
The entire process of counselling for transfers including giving options would be an online exercise to prevent irregularities, Mr. Srihari said adding that different committees would oversee transfers of different categories of teachers.
On regularisation of contract employees in junior and polytechnic colleges, the Deputy Chief Minister said it would be done as per guidelines and recruitment would be taken up only after that. He said the government would examine the possibility of recruiting the candidates who had cleared DSCs conducted from 1998 to 2008, if there was any possibility legally.
Kadiam Srihari releases schedule of the process, to go on till July 16
