Bihar govt school teachers can now arrange their own transfers via online portal

Siddharth noted in his letter to district education officers, “Teachers have been transferred in various phases, but despite being posted at a distance of 30 km from a distance of 400 km, they are not satisfied, so complaints are being lodged at various levels.”

The order also highlights that academic work is being affected in schools where transferred teachers have not yet been replaced.

Under the new system, teachers can log in to the portal, view lists of transfer-seeking colleagues by district, subject, and category and apply for transfers themselves. The directive states that teachers of the same category and subject may form groups of up to ten and arrange mutual transfers between their current schools. The department says this will help “fill vacant posts and allow teachers to select the school themselves by transferring themselves.”

Verification for the transfer process will be conducted via OTP and transfer orders are to be issued within three days of application. The order makes clear that “it will be mandatory to join the selected school within seven days of the transfer order being issued. If even a single teacher in the entire group refuses to join, the transfer order of all the transferred teachers will be cancelled.”

The facility will be available from July 10 through the end of the month, with further guidelines to be issued separately, the directive reads. The Education Department has clarified that neither the state headquarters nor district establishment committees will intervene in the process, placing responsibility for transfers directly on teachers.

The initiative follows a large-scale transfer drive earlier this year involving more than 1,30,000 teachers. Despite the government’s efforts to make the process transparent and efficient, many teachers remained dissatisfied with their postings, prompting the department to introduce this self-transfer mechanism.

The officer said the new system is expected to provide convenience to teachers and help the department address the challenge of vacant posts in schools.