Even as the School Education Department is contemplating to take up the counselling programme for the transfers and promotions of teachers tentatively from June 14 onwards, majority of teaching community argue that the government should first complete the process of unified service rules of all the teachers.
The teachers stated that majority of teachers working in the Panchayat Raj and the government schools were denied of promotions due to non-implementation of unified service rules since 2005 onwards. They also said that the implementation of unified service rules would enable the authorities to fill up vacant MEO and Deputy DEO posts for effective supervision and functioning of schools.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had also assured to take a firm decision on the demand for unified service rules after assuming charge while disclosing the details about the KG to PG English medium education system. It is over a year and the government is yet to take a decision on the unified service rules in spite of several agitations by the teachers unions, complained a teachers’ union leader.
Telangana Rashtra Teachers’ Federation district president M. Prathap Reddy said that the implementation of unified service rules would strengthen the education system with the filling of all vacant MEO and Deputy DEOs, DIET lecturers’ posts, etc. He also urged the government to pass a resolution on unified service rules to amend the Article 370 (D) for the benefit of teachers.
“We had been demanding the unified service rules for over a decade. If the government fails to take a decision on unified service rules than the government schools future would be at stake”, argued a government school headmaster.
Some of the teachers also complained over the conduct of counselling programme for transfers and postings of teachers during the start of the academic year and the conduct of SSC supplementary examinations from June 12 and 18 onwards respectively. They suggested that the government should conduct the transfers and postings only during the coming Dasara vacations.
Telangana Pranthiya Upadyaya Sangham president N. Muralidhar Rao favoured rationalisation of teachers before taking up counselling for transfers.
