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The Navya Andhra Teachers Association connected Sunday (October 26, 2025) urged the State authorities to exclude Assistant Directors from information for District Educational Officer (DEO) promotions.
In a connection issued here, the association’s State president K. Harikrishna and wide caput M. Srinivasa Rao said that Headmasters and Mandal Educational Officers (MEOs) nether the Panchayat Raj Department should beryllium promoted arsenic subordinate acquisition officials and the DEO promotions missed by Panchayat Raj teachers nether the 12-point rhythm should beryllium treated arsenic a backlog.
They said that nether a “one-time exemption,” respective Assistant Directors were promoted arsenic DEOs and DDs (Deputy Directors) acold exceeding the prescribed quota successful the 12-point promotion cycle. Pointing retired that arsenic per G.O. No. 505 and G.O. No. 73, lone 2 Assistant Directors retired of each 12 officers were eligible for promotion arsenic DEOs, they said. However, since galore Departmental Vigilance Officer (DVO)posts were vacant and determination were nary eligible officers successful different categories, astir 19 Assistant Directors were promoted astatine erstwhile nether the one-time exemption.
They said though the approved cadre spot of Assistant Directors was astir 80, astir 40 further officers had been promoted, making the full acold beyond the sanctioned strength. Describing this arsenic irrational and detrimental to the acquisition system, they argued that appointing non-teaching unit arsenic acquisition administrators had weakened the system, which was already evident arsenic implicit 40% of students had near authorities schools.
The relation leaders emphasised that to safeguard the endurance of authorities schools and instrumentality the recommendations of the New National Education Policy (NEP) successful full, it was indispensable that lone teachers and DIET lecturers with schoolroom teaching acquisition were appointed arsenic acquisition officers.
They appealed to the authorities to instrumentality the 12-point promotion cycle, beforehand Panchayat Raj Headmasters arsenic subordinate acquisition officers and from among them, beforehand eligible officers arsenic DEOs, portion excluding the excess Assistant Directors from the promotion process.
