The Gujarat government has made number of changes in the rules of transfers of government teachers.
The rules for transfers for vidhya sahayak, primary teachers, and high school teachers have been changed. The state government’s changes will benefit approximately 2 lakh government teachers. The transfer rules were first implemented ten years ago, after which various primary education organisations made various requests for changes.
The government teachers whose transfers were made but they had not been released due to over 10 % vacant establishments are released by the state government. The benefit of inter district transfers was only given to 40 percent teachers out of the vacancy till now. It will now be given to 100 percent of teachers out of the vacancy.
The provision of ‘native’ was mandatory for inter district transfers and internal transfers in the districts. The word ‘native’ is removed from the provisions. The bonded teachers appointed on the condition of working at one place for 10 years will now be able to apply for transfers after 5 years of duty
If government employees are eligible for transfers from one district to another and their spouse is a government teacher, such government teachers can be deputised in the districts where the government employee has been transferred.
The benefit of husband/wife cases will also be implemented for the granted bodies, public sector undertakings of state government and government companies of the central and state government. A complaint redressal committee is formed to handle complaints about the transfers.