Punjab govt unveils transfer policy for school teachers

Chandigarh, Jun 4 (UNI) The Punjab government today unveiled a transfer policy for school teachers appointed by the Zila Parishads to enable them to be posted at the places of their choice.

Under the proposed policy, unmarried women, physically challenged and those with the special dispensation would be given preference.

A decision to this effect was taken following a meeting of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal with a delegation of the Punjab Mulazam Front led by its President Surinder Singh Pehalwan.

Mr Badal asked the Education Secretary to invite applications from the willing teachers who want to seek transfers indicating the choice of their station.

Conceding the demands of the Punjab Mulazam Front, Mr Badal asked the Finance and Personnel Departments to jointly examine the demands pertaining to regularisation of the ad hoc and work-charged employees within the parameters of the laid down guidelines of the Supreme Court.

He said the state government would soon initiate the process to launch recruitment drive to fill 10,000 vacant posts of school teachers on regular basis in a transparent manner.

He also directed the Department of Personnel to find ways and means to reinstate the Panchayat Secretaries, Home Guards, SPOs and Computer teachers who were dismissed from the service by the previous government.

He also asked the Principal Secretary Cooperation to finalise the modalities for the Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS) for the employees of the Cooperative Sugar Mills that had been shut down due to the lack of adequate financial resources and optimum crushing capacity thereby rendering these mills unviable.

UNI