Due process: Posting of senior teachers, principals stopped

Education Dept spokesperson says govt is devising rationalisation policy

DG KHAN/SARGODHA/FAISALABAD: The Education Department has imposed a ban on transfer of senior teachers and school heads in Faisalabad till the provincial government announces a rationalisation policy.

A spokesperson for the Education Department told The Express Tribune that a committee had been constituted under the education minister to review promotions and transfers.

“The education secretary has issued a notification asking the district heads of the Education Department have been asked to immediately stop transfers and postings of senior teachers and school heads till a rationalisation policy is announced,” he said.

“The district heads have also been directed to withdraw transfer and posting orders of teachers and school heads issued over the last two months.”

The spokesperson said the Education Department had changed the ratio of seats of grades 17 to 20 from 50:34:15:1 to 42:36:19:3. “Seats would therefore be upgraded in some public schools,” he said. “After these changes are made, the Education Department will ask teachers and school heads for their suggestions.”

He said a number of school heads and teachers had been transferred and a number of cases were pending before the DCO.

He said the education secretary had directed the DCOs, the EDOs and the DOs not to transfer and post any school head or senior teachers because there was no rationalisation policy released in this regard so far.

“The secretary education told that the committee headed by the education minister to devise a rationalisation policy regarding adjustment of seats after their upgrade and downgrade,” the spokesperson added.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2015.