Chandigarh, August 5: Haryana Government while giving major relief to the Teachers Clerks, Assistants and Lab Attendants suffering from various disabilities, today approved a proposal regarding Amendment in Teacher Transfer Policy-2016 Amended in 2017 for the department of School Education Haryana.

The State Cabinet which met under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Sh. Manohar Lal gave approval to various amendments requires to be made under the said Policy  so as to ensure equitable, demand-based deployment of Teachers/School Heads, in a fair and transparent manner so as to protect the academic interest of the students.

As per the amendment now the persons having vision and locomotors disabilities from 31 to 50 percent would be given 10 marks, while earlier the said disability percentage was from 40 to 60 percent. Similarly the now the persons having vision and locomotors disabilities above 50 percent and upto 75 percent would be given 20 marks, while earlier the said percentage was from 60 to 80 percent and the marks given were only 15.

Likewise, as per the amendments, the disability parentage of vision loss or locomotor disability for any reason has been reduced from 100 percent to more than 75 percent.  Besides this, now any teacher willing to participate in Transfer drive can participate, if he/she desires so, irrespective of his/her stay in the current zone/school. This change will also be applicable to respective clause of Transfer Policy for Clerks, Assistants and Lab Attendants also.

Under the amended rules, now the Guest Teachers working in various schools across the State would be included in the online transfer drive.  Furthermore, as per the amendment made under involuntary deemed vacancy, a post occupied by guest/ adhoc teacher has also been included along with existing provisions.