Arunachal Pradesh education department urges immediate transfer compliance for teachers

Itanagar: The Arunachal Pradesh education department has issued an ‘urgent reminder’ to all district education officials to immediately relieve all teachers who have been transferred to assume their new posts without delay.Education commissioner Amjad Tak, in a directive on Saturday, said transferred teachers must be relieved from their current positions and assume duty at their new location immediately ‘without fail’.He directed the district department officials to submit a ‘district-wise compliance report’ of names and current posts of transferred teachers, the dates on which they were relieved from their old schools and the dates of their joining at their new postings.The reports are to be submitted before Monday.In the directive, the official warned of strict action under relevant service rules against the defaulting officers or districts who fail to comply.On July 20 this year, the state govt notified transfer and posting of 203 teachers across the state as a part of its ongoing process to streamline and manage state’s educational workforce effectively. However, many teachers are unwilling to leave their current places of posting with some of them resorting to producing medical certificate and joint posting of spouse as an excuse.Several districts have reported non-joining of teachers to their new posting places. In West Kameng district, it prompted a students’ body to announce a bandh call recently. However, the bandh was called off following assurances from MLAs to address the issue with higher authorities.