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Existing transfer industry in Education Deptt: BJP affiliated teachers’ union demands probe

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Jammu, Nov 28: Amid allegations of flourishing transfer industry in the education department, the All Jammu Kashmir and Laddakh Teachers Federation affiliated with Akhil Bhartiya Rashtriya Shakshik Mahasangh demanded an independent probe into recent transfers in the education department.
In its monthly meeting held at Ramban held under the chairmanship of district general secretary Ramparshad Singh Manhas in the presence of UT president Devraj Thakur and secretary Sanjay Katoch.
In the meeting, members asked higher authorities to initiate an independent enquiry regarding irregularities, omission and commission with regards to the gross violation of transfer norms, pick and choose transfer of hundreds of teachers in recent ATD 2021 in some districts.
In the meeting Devraj Thakur President JKUT, appealed to Administrative Secretary Education B K Singh, to personally intervene in this matter where large scale corruption and misappropriation in ATD -2021 done by some districts and appealed for constituting a high-level committee against officials for committing gross irregularities and misappropriation in this process.
“It is a serious matter that some Chief Education Officers are openly violating all the norms and misusing their official positions, they first published a tentative list of transfers seeking objections but most of the places of postings were changed even the teachers hadn't filed any objections”, he said.
A number of influential teachers were dropped from the tentative list without any valid reason. “Some of them were adjusted in prime locations even the said list was for soft to hard zones and vice versa. No criteria of stay was followed while making these transfers. The limit of violations was crossed when a teacher was ordered to report to CEO Office Rajouri till further orders against his consent”, Thakur alleged.