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Congress opposes transfer policy of teachers

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JAIPUR: The Congress party has opposed the newly announced transfer policy for teachers in Rajasthan. The new policy, instead of benefiting the teachers, would make them the target of political prejudice, the party said here on Thursday.

The Pradesh Congress Committee general secretaries, Ramakant Vyas and Mumtaz Masih, in a statement argued that the new transfer policy for the Education Department, cleared by the State Cabinet two days ago, vested the powers to transfer any teacher through a notification with the Government itself.

"There is no direction in the new policy and more transfers would be carried out under it than the large scale transfers executed in the State one year and a half back,'' the Congress leaders said. Nobody in the Education Department was now owning up the responsibility for the hundreds of such transfers carried in the State in the past without proper orders, they pointed out.

The new policy talked about a ceiling of 10 per cent in the number of transfers but ever 10 per cent transfers would mean 20,000 teachers, Mr.Vyas pointed out.

The new policy's provision for transfers of teachers from villages to urban centres, would lead to an exodus of teachers from rural schools, he warned.

The provision that the teachers who did not perform well(going by the results)could be posted in rural areas too was not logical, it was pointed out.

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