Punjab Government is planning to extend the online transfer system to its other departments to ensure total transparency minus corruption, after its implementation in the Education Department.

“The State Government planned to extend the policy to other departments, thus ushering in total transparency in their systems too. With the computer-driven system, there is no scope for any bias or prejudice, and the process is designed to award performance,” said the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday after issuing the first transfer orders for teachers under the new Transfer Policy with the click of a button, ensuring total transparency in the system. Under the new policy of the Department of School Education, all transfers of teaching staff are now being done only online, with no human intervention, thus ending the widespread corruption reported in the matter of such transfers.

A total of 11,063 applications were received for transfer, of which orders in the case of 4,551 were successfully issued while 6,506 could not be entertained in the first round, said the spokesperson.

Schools have been divided into five zones for this purpose, with detailed criteria laid down to decide claims against the transfers including length of service, age, marks for special categories like females, widow, divorcee, unmarried females, differently abled persons, persons suffering from debilitating disorders, couple cases. Apart from this, 90 marks have been provided, out of the total 250, for performance of the teachers, thus making the system totally performance-based like results of the teachers, performance as per Annual Confidential Report etc.