The district unit of Prathmik Shikshak Sangh (PSS) — the association of primary teachers of Government schools — has upped its ante against the transfers of ill teachers from other districts to Dehradun. The education department has recently transferred some teachers to the State capital on health grounds. The teachers already posted in Dehradun are disturbed by these transfers as every year hundreds of such transfers take place in Dehradun due to which the chances of promotion of teachers already posted recede.

The PSS has threatened to enforce lockout of the district education office on January 6, 2017 if these transfers are not revoked.

The district President of PSS, Virendra Singh Krishali said, “Every year hundreds of teachers are transferred to Dehradun district on medical grounds. Most of these transfers take place on the posts of promotion due to which the promotional prospects of teachers suffer. I would suggest the government to either stop this inter district transfer of ill teachers and transfer these teachers to the district headquarters of where they are serving or open a hospice in Dehradun for these teachers instead of deploying them in schools. The medically unfit teachers affect the academic environment of schools they are posted in.’’

The PSS is agitated as most of the ill teachers serving in other districts of the state prefer to get posting to Dehradun on medical grounds. One teacher serving in Dehradun for last fifteen years said that these teachers are transferred on the promotion posts like Head of Basic School, head Junior School or Assistant teacher of Junior schools due to which many teachers working for last 20 years in Dehradun are not promoted. The other teacher organizations like Junior High School Shikshak Sangh (JHSSS) also have opposed such transfers.