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Wednesday, Jun 16, 2004

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Ban on transfers lifted

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, JUNE 15. The Government has lifted the ban on transfers imposed two years ago, citing two reasons -- employees' welfare and administrative efficiency. The ban will be lifted for a month (up to July 15) with immediate effect, reversing the ealier GO Ms No. 767 dated August 21, 2002 through which the ban was introduced.

The order lifting the ban, which was issued yesterday by the Finance Department, specifies four major grounds on which employees, including teachers, can seek a transfer: four years' service as on April 1, 2004, at a particular station; medical grounds and diseases such as cancer, heart operation, neurosurgery, bone TB, or kidney transplant affecting self, spouse or dependent children, in which case, the transfer will be to places where such treatment facilities are available; spouse employed at a different place, in which case, the benefit is subject to the condition that only one of the spouses can be transferred; and serious family problems such as higher studies of college-going children.

The GO asks the competent authority to prepare transfer proposals keeping administrative efficiency in view. Employees of no other category should be transferred taking advantage of the exemption clause, it says.

It asks departments to work out their actual extent of transfers on the basis of these guidelines and obtain approvals from the Finance Minister through the concerned Ministers before effecting them. This is a must for getting TTA and other claims.

There was jubilation among all categories of employees, especially teachers, over the GO.

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