Demands meeting with Education Minister
Resentment among teachers over new transfer policy, GTU demand to remove errors
Ferozepur, August 19, 2019: There is great resentment among the teachers community for not giving preference to the teachers posted away from home at a distance of 50 to 250 kms, despite formulating performance based only transfer policy for 90,000 teachers, with exemptions for the teachers suffering from medical issues.
State Education Minister while announcing the transfer policy has aimed it as optimal distribution of human resources in order to protect academic interest of the students and to maximize the job satisfaction amongst employees with a transparent and fair transfer policy. The policy was termed as effective from academic session 2019-20.
Balwinder Singh Bhutto, President, Government Teachers Union – GTU and Neeraj Yadav, Secretary said, it is injustice with the teachers for not giving preference to the teachers at distant places.
They said, with the abolition of posts of head teachers at their own, the officials working against these posts are without any orders as ETT teachers have come against their posts on transfer.
Similarly, in the transfer policy, majority of the teachers could not get themselves transferred because of non the con-availability of condition of 125 points. Also, hiding of certain stations in the list of vacant stations issued three times, itself speaks of some vested intentions of the department, they added.
They further said, the teachers who have been transferred in three phases, the same would have been mention of their points also in the list of transferees as some of the teachers have alleged that in spite of the fact of having more points, they have not been transferred whereas the teachers with less points have been transferred.
Apart from this, certain posts have become surplus with the joining of certain officials on transfer, with the result the old teachers are also worried as the department might now transfer them taking the plea of less students.
For solution to all these problems, the Government Teachers Union have demanded an immediate meeting with the Education Minister, to get justice for the genuine teachers, in queue for transfer to the stations of their choices.