Day before poll code ban, govt transfers 8,000 teachers in state
JAIPUR: A day before the ban on transfers, the state government carried out a large scale reshuffle on Monday, transferring over 7,500 government school teachers.
The online procedure for transfer applications was introduced by the education department and transfer orders for 7,910 government school teachers were released late on Sunday and the transfer process was carried on till Monday morning.
The orders for mass transfers were uploaded on the Shala Darpan website and education minister Govind Singh Dotasra tweeted the about the transfers. This list has been uploaded one day before the ban on the transfers due to the bypolls in Khinvsar and Mandawa.
The transfer orders were uploaded on the website during late hours on Monday and were carried out as per the pre-defined guidelines for the online transfer system.
“Transfer orders for 230 head teachers, 355 English lecturers, 154 commerce lecturers, 163 other lecturers along with interdistrict transfers of lab assistant and librarians have been sent out. The lists can be accessed at the staff corner of the Shala Darpan website,” said Dotasra in the tweet.
Earlier this month, Dotasra at a press conference said that the system for online applications of transfers is being introduced so that the teachers will not have to meet the political leaders or officials personally for the transfers and apply for the transfers through a systematic online process.
Maximum transfers have been carried out for school principal which are 2606 in number. 916 lecturers of political science have been transferred to new places, while the number is 1100 for hindi lecturers in schools. Number of transfers for history, geography and mathematics lecturers are 720,575 and 82 while 308 chemistry lecturers have been transferred to new places.
The total number of teachers transferred including the librarian and lab assistants is 7910. While most of the transfers are within the districts some are also inter-district. While 17 transfers lists of different subject teachers were uploaded on the Shala Darpan website on Sunday, two were uploaded on Saturday.
Transfer orders for 230 head teachers, 355 English lecturers, 154 commerce lecturers, 163 other lecturers along with inter-district transfers of lab assistant and librarians have been sent out
GOVIND S DOTASRA , minister