Captain Amarinder Singh orders mass transfers of 19,905 school teachers

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday ordered mass general transfers of school teachers through the online portal of the Education Department, in line with the Teachers Transfer Policy Punjab. With the touch of a button, the Chief Minister cleared the transfer of 10,099 school teachers and volunteers to the station of their choice purely on a merit basis. Meanwhile, School Education Minister Vijay Inder Singla was also present on the occasion. Also Read | Coronavirus India: People above 45 years can get COVID-19 vaccine from this date A total of 35,386 online applications were received from aspiring teachers and volunteers, of which 15,481 were found ineligible as they were found short of the prescribed parameters of the policy. The remaining 19,905 were found eligible for transfer. For the first time, the Computer Teachers and various categories of Education Volunteers were brought into the ambit of the Teachers Transfer Policy Punjab. Also Read | Delhi government names four ‘superspreader’ areas Captain Amarinder Singh said that the unique teacher's transfer policy has been instrumental in successfully achieving the goal of quality education through filling vacant posts. This has helped in ensuring uninterrupted academic session, besides giving enormous job satisfaction to the teachers to work at the places of their choice exclusively on merit. He also said that the government would soon enact the Teachers Transfer Act for the transfer of teachers, in place of the existing system of notification issued by the School Education Department. The Chief Minister lauded various projects of the School Education Department for sprucing up infrastructure and improving the quality of education in government schools. Punjab has pioneered several path-breaking initiatives to bring in qualitative improvement in school education, he pointed out. Click here to follow PTC News on Twitter. -PTC News

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