Garhwal and Kumaon divisions' additional directors and district education officers have been directed to rectify teachers’ complaints about their teaching experience graded by the department based on categorisation of schools located in most accessible, accessible area, inaccessible, most inaccessible area by June 13, said school education (basic) director Anil Kumar Negi on Tuesday.
The education officers have been directed to release first list of compulsory teachers' transfer under Uttarakhand Teacher Transfer Policy in their respective jurisdiction by June 16, he added.
Negi said that most of the teachers’ complaints received in the department revealed that they had applied for rectifying their teaching experiences due to insufficient knowledge about formula adopted by department while awarding grades to the school based on its location.
According to him, all the districts have released list of 15 per cent of the total teachers who are eligible for transfer from accessible area to inaccessible area and 10 per cent from inaccessible area to accessible area under Uttarakhand Teacher Transfer Policy.
The list of lT teachers and lecturers who are eligible for transfer has also been released at division levels.
Garhwal division additional director NS Rana said that the list of 518 lT teachers and lecturers who are eligible for transfer has been released.
Department received several applications from the teachers requesting rectification of their teaching experience. Teachers’ doubts were cleared regarding their teaching experience mentioned on the education department website www.edu.hiesys.com. If there are mistakes found in schools’ grade awarded by the department these will be corrected, he added.
Kumaon division additional director Kusum Pant said that list of around 375 lT Teachers and lecturers who are eligible for transfer has been released.
Teachers were directed to consult the officers concerned inorder to check and if needed, rectify their teaching experience on the education department website.
She expressed hope that department will able to release first list of compulsory teacher transfer under the Uttarakhand Teacher Transfer Policy by June 16, she added.
Dehradun district education officer (basic) Pravendra Saklani said that that list of around 260 junior school teachers who are eligible for transfer have been released and department had received several applications from teachers. After scrutiny of these lists, a compulsory list of teachers’ transfer will be released by June 16.