Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
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On a petition alleging irregularities in the transfer of government school teachers, the Madras High Court Bench on Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu Education department to file the “true list” of teachers who were transferred through the online counselling process. A bench of Justices K K Sasidharan and A D Audikesavalu gave the direction, noting that there was contradiction in the reply submitted by the department in response to an RTI query and the list provided by the Secretary to the court.

There was no truth in the list submitted by the Education Secretary regarding general transfer of teachers. The real list should be submitted to the court; the bench said and adjourned the matter.

Earlier, KK Ramesh of Madurai submitted a litigation alleging that the authorities issued transfer orders to a lot of teachers, citing administrative grounds by collecting bribe from them during the general transfer counselling in 2018.

“While teachers working away from their home district for more than 10 years were not given transfer to their districts, transfer orders were issued to juniors within a few months of their joining”, stated the litigant

Ramesh pleaded to the Court to direct an inquiry into such irregularities.

Hearing the plea, a bench comprising K K Sasidharan and A D Audikesavalu issued a notice to the department with specific directions to its Secretary and Director to submit a report on the list of teachers transferred during this year’s counselling.

By fatima

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