Arjun gets panel to relook KV transfers

Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is undoing the much-disliked transfer policy for Kendriya Vidyalaya teachers. Today, t...

Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh is undoing the much-disliked transfer policy for Kendriya Vidyalaya teachers. Today, the minister constituted a committee to look into all the transfers since his predecessor, Murli Manohar Joshi, enforced the transfer policy a couple of years ago.

Joshi’s transfer policy had affected almost 7,000 teachers. Hundreds have even left the service.

Singh has instructed the ministry that if the committee concludes that there was unnecessary harassment, all the teachers who gave up their jobs would be given the option of returning to the KVS organisation.

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The HRD Ministry today said that the transfers under guidelines issued by Joshi in 2000 led to ‘‘a widespread dislocation of teachers across the country.’’

According to the ministry, many of the teachers had been transferred far away from their place of residence and families.

Already, the ministry has adopted ‘‘a more humane transfer policy’’. But there was a need, the ministry said, to address the grievances of those who had been transferred wrongly earlier.