Bhopal: The Cabinet decision on inter-departmental and inter-district transfer of Adhyapak Samvarg has come to a naught owing to the administrative obstinacy. Tribal welfare department has put the Cabinet decision on transfers of teachers in cold storage and refused to give permission to relieve the Adhyapaks working in the tribal blocks.
While the authorities at the tribal department remained obstinate, their counterpart in education department taking cue from them cancelled the transfer orders of scores of teachers who for years were eagerly waiting to get shifted. Even as the chief minister is going all out to woo the government employees ahead of the elections, the adamant administrative officials are not letting things moves in the desired direction.
The Cabinet came up with new teachers’ transfer policy and its order dated July 10, 2017 stated that the Adhayapak Samvarg serving under civic and local bodies like municipal corporations, janpad panchayat and others will be permitted to apply for transfers.
The decision had brought joy and hopes among the Adhayapak, teaching mostly in schools run under education and tribal departments, as earlier they were not allowed to get transferred. They had been demanding the transfer policy for last 20 years. In the state, the schools education department is running schools in 224 blocks and the tribal department in 89 blocks.
After the decision, the school education department conducted a rationalization (yukti-yuktikaran) and found out that there were 11,000 surplus teachers in the department. However, since the tribal department did not participate in the process, they could not come up with details of the teachers working in the tribal block.
The school education department called online the applications from teachers seeking transfers. Around 700 Adhyapak working in non-tribal blocks expressed interest in getting transferred to tribal block. Around 400 teachers of tribal block were willing to get shifted to schools at non-tribal blocks.
The education department commissioner accepted the applications of the teachers and issued the transferred orders. However, the tribal welfare department commissioner Deepali Rastogi issued an order on April 12, directing not to relieve the Adhyapaks citing the shortage of teachers in the tribal department run schools.
The whole exercise of the Cabinet and the school education department came to a nought by a single order of the tribal commissioner, which also dashed hopes of scores of teachers. Thereafter, the school education department commissioner Neeraj Dubey also issued an order on April 16, stating that since tribal department had refused to relieve their teachers, the teaching staff working under the department-run school would continue to serve in their respective schools and would not be transferred.
When Free Press contacted the tribal department commissioner Rastogi she refused to speak on the order stating to speak to the principal secretary SN Mishra regarding it. Intestinally, the order was issued by her but she reduced to comment on it.
