‘E-transfer good for teachers’

MULTAN: District Education Authority (DEA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shamsher Ahmed Khan said that e-transfers of school teachers is a good facility and up to 300 teachers benefited from the policy in the first phase. He told APP on Monday that across the province, public school teachers submitted e-transfer applications to benefit from the innovative initiative. “Teachers can send their joining reports through this system.” The CEO added that after lifting of the ban on transfers and postings, teachers can now apply for transfers in the second phase. “Firstly, intra-district and then inter-district transfers were made in the summer vacations. Around 17,000 teachers applied for transfer in the province and around 16,500 joined new postings through the e-transfer policy.”   On the issue of clean drinking water, he said that most schools have filtered water facility and that water in Shujabad and Jalalpur Pirwala is contaminated. The CEO further said that different schools in the district are constructing toilets using their own resources.  

Published in The Express Tribune, September 17^th, 2019.