Govt. sets out teacher transfer procedure

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JUNE 12. Do not fall prey to middlemen who hold out promises of getting transfer, the Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalithaa, advised teachers today.

If a genuine transfer sought was as per the rules, it would be granted to the individual, said an official release quoting the Chief Minister.

The release set out a procedure for the general transfer of school and college teachers. If there was more than one representation for a single vacancy, preference would be given to a teacher whose spouse was working in the Central or State Government or in a public sector undertaking in that place, the wife of serving military personnel, disabled teachers and women teachers. Station seniority would be taken into consideration if there were more than one eligible candidate.

Mutual transfers would be accepted and in hilly areas, the existing procedure followed.

The Government directed all educational offices to display prominently the number of vacancies, names of teachers, who have applied for transfers and the transfer procedures. The officers empowered to make the transfer would hold counselling sessions at a pre-determined time and place, where the applications would be perused in the presence of the applicants and if allowed, the transfer orders issued on the spot.

Any complaint of this procedure and the regulations being breached could be brought to her notice, the Chief Minister said.

The Tamilnadu Primary School Teachers Federation, which welcomed the Chief Minister's announcement, urged the Government to consider giving priority to the spouses of employees of the private sector also along with PSU employees.

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