Five months on, scores of govt primary teachers yet to be allocated schools

PRAYAGRAJ : Thousands of government primary and upper primary school teachers are worried over the delay in school allocation to them even five months after their inter-district mutual transfers took place across the state. The transfer of 4,868 teachers and headmasters of these schools was done on February 17 this year.

These teachers have formally joined duties in their respective districts at the offices of basic shiksha adhikaris (BSAs) and for the past five months have been marking their attendance at these offices and returning home despite the fact that these schools have opened for teachers from July 1 and they are supposed to undertake online teaching from their allocated school campuses.

Around 110 such teachers are being paid their entire salary sans any work or school allocation in Prayagraj alone, confirm officials.

“What is strange is that we want the allocation of schools to be carried out at the earliest so that we can formally join there

and start our

The NIC team was busy with third phase of counselling of candidates selected under the 69,000 assistant teachers’ recruitment drive and therefore the school allocation work could not be undertaken. However, this month itself the teachers who have been transferred under the mutual transfer initiative would be allocated their schools PRATAP SINGH BAGHEL,

teaching work. Unless the allocation and joining get completed, we have no work as such and all we do is come to the BSA office and mark our attendance,” said one such teacher.

“The NIC team was busy with third phase of counselling of candidates selected under the 69,000 assistant teachers’ recruitment drive and therefore the school allocation work could not be undertaken. However, this month itself the teachers who have been transferred under the mutual transfer initiative would be allocated their schools,” said Pratap Singh Baghel, secretary, Basic Education

secretary, Basic Education Board, UP

Board, Uttar Pradesh.

Transfers allowed on mutual basis of some teachers had to be cancelled at the last moment too. At the time of submitting applications in December 2019, certain teachers had given their assent to be transferred to other districts from their district of posting but when the orders got issued, they refused to shift.

This forced the department to cancel transfers of not just the teachers refusing to move but of also the ones who were ready but could not do so now, officials said. In Prayagraj, 118 teachers were transferred but only 110 have joined so far, they add.