School Education Department to withhold salaries of teaching staff evading Annual Transfer Drive 2023
The School Education Department in Srinagar has announced that it will withhold the salaries of teaching staff who are evading the Annual Transfer Drive 2023 despite having a stay period of more than three years. A communique from the Deputy Secretary to the government was sent to the Director of JK-SCERT, the Directors of School Education for Jammu and Kashmir regions, and the Project Director of Samagra Shiksha.
The communique requests the details of employees who have not applied for the online transfer-2023 despite having mature stay, as well as the details of surplus or attached employees who have not applied for the online transfer-2023. The government has also requested that the salary of eligible employees who fail to apply for the online transfer not be drawn.
Previously, the School Education Department had announced that eligible employees not applying for transfer despite having a mature stay would be transferred by the Department anywhere as per the requirement of the Department. The preferences for posting were also announced by the Department.
School Education Department to withhold salaries of teaching staff
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The Director of School Education Jammu (DSEJ) has warned teachers who have a stay of three or more years that they will be transferred to Zone-IV and V if they fail to apply for the transfers. The Department has specified that Zone-I falls within the municipal limit of the district headquarters, Zone-II is outside the municipal limit up to 20km from the district headquarters, Zone-III is beyond 20km to 40km from the district headquarters, Zone-IV is beyond 40km and above from the district headquarters and also where a change of residence is required. Additionally, schools where there is no motorable road and walking distance from the nearest motorable road is 7 KMs or more one way are included.