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Teachers moving connected a declaration ground astatine Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBVs) crossed the State person alleged that they were “forcibly transferred” to distant places without immoderate notification for the world twelvemonth 2026-27. Samagra Shiksha officials, however, said it was a hue and outcry by a fewer disgruntled employees.
According to the members of the KGBVs Teachers’ Union Andhra Pradesh (KGBVSTUAP), principals who person completed 5 years of work astatine 1 school, and Contract Residential Teachers (CRTs), Post-Graduate Teachers (PGTs) and Physical Education Teachers (PETs) who person completed 8 years, were asked informally to taxable transportation applications.
KGBVSTUAP president Ratna Malini Devi said, “The exertion for transfers was enactment successful our radical of principals, CRTs, PGTs and PETs connected March 31, 2026, and we were asked to use without immoderate ceremonial proceedings. Girl Child Development Officers (GCDOs) are threatening america to taxable it immediately, other our declaration volition not get renewed for the adjacent world year.”
“How tin they transportation america without expanding our salaries? Though the tribunal directed implementation of the Minimum of Time Scale (MTS) by 2022 itself, nary authorities has offered it truthful far. We person been asking the authorities to summation salaries, wage each the pending dues, instrumentality MTS and supply location rent allowance (HRA), and past contented transportation proceedings,” she said.
KGBVSTUAP caput Nageswari said that of a full of 5,000 teachers successful the State, 75% had been threatened to motion the transportation applications. She asked however declaration teachers could spend location rents and different expenses connected a meagre wage of conscionable ₹26,000 per month, and demanded that the authorities halt these forced transfers immediately.
Speaking to The Hindu, Samagra Shiksha State Project Director B. Srinivasa Rao said, “The authorities is transferring the teachers arsenic per the presumption successful the contract. To support the interests of the students and forestall monopoly, it is mandatory to transportation the principals and teachers who person completed 5 and 8 years respectively astatine 1 school.”
“The transportation process is being done aft considering the teachers’ preferences, and successful a transparent manner. Almost 80% of the teachers person accepted the transportation procedure, but 15-20% of them were not satisfied with this. We volition place the wide vacant positions crossed the State and contented a caller notification to enlistee teachers soon,” helium said.
