Amid protest by non-tainted teachers against the West Bengal government, the state school education department has cancelled notification of transfers teachers.
When it was notified?
West Bengal School Education department sought transfer application from the school teachers on February 10. According to that, those teachers whose schools are far from their residence, they can apply for transfer. But last week School Education department withdrawn that notification. School education department informed, this was withdrawn for indefinite period. When it will be again reintroduced that will be informed.
Why was the notification withdrawn?
According to school education department, from last year this transfer policy started by school education department. A senior official of school education department said, “last year after this transfer policy started, it was seen those schools which are in town areas increased number of teachers and those schools which are in village areas decreased number of teachers. This happened because more teacher’s residence of town areas rather than villages. So most pf them chose town areas for transfer and department also accepted that proposal.”
He further added, “after Supreme court order to cancel whole panel of SLST-2016, more than 25 thousand teachers and non-teaching staffs lost their job. After that many school have less than five teachers and if the transfer policy will be implemented they may have zero or one teacher. State government thought that will create new problem in the education sector.”
Education Departments wants to avoid fresh controversy
In this situation, the school education department decided not to go ahead with new transfer policy like last year so that they can avoid new controversy. However school education department is not clear how and when this problem can be overcome.
“We are not sure whether the state government will make review petition in the supreme court. If they do so, when it will be done, that is also not clear to us,” said a official of School Education department.
