Legal opinion sought on transfer of primary head teachers

The Director of General Education has sought the sentiment of the Advocate General successful transportation with the transportation of superior caput teachers successful the State. This follows an interim bid of the Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT) connected May 29 staying intra-district transfers of teachers until further orders, connected a clutch of petitions.

The Kerala Government Primary School Headmasters’ Association said the tribunal had ordered that inter-district transportation beryllium conducted up of the intra-district transfers. Since inter-district transfers are not applicable to superior caput teachers, the directorate is attempting to proceed with their transfers without inviting contempt of tribunal proceedings. The relation has besides taken up the substance with the government.

Earlier, teacher transportation procedures had been halted owed to Census duty. The relation had past pointed retired that caput teachers were not included successful Census duty. The tribunal bid past came arsenic different hurdle. The DGE, successful its connection to the Advocate General, pointed retired that superior caput teachers had nary Census work nor were they eligible for inter-district transfer. The directorate had issued a communal circular effecting intra-district transportation of teachers, including superior caput teachers.

Since schools had reopened connected June 1, caput teachers were inevitable successful each schoolhouse for creaseless behaviour of world and administrative functions, including pupil admissions and fixing unit strength. The transportation and posting of superior caput teachers was affected by the KAT order, the DGE said, seeking the Advocate General’s ineligible sentiment connected whether promotion, transfer, and posting of caput teachers could beryllium affected.

Since teachers could proceed Census work adjacent if they were transferred, a enactment connected transfers should beryllium re-examined, the relation said. It besides demanded that superior caput teacher transfers beryllium implemented astatine the earliest.