Karnataka has 500 teachers to fill 27 vacancies

As it turned out, teachers preferred Krishna’s and the Education Minister’s office — to get postings of their choice — over counselling. Thus, there was no counselling.

The number of teachers cleared for transfers by the CM’s office and Primary and Secondary Education Minister Prof. B.K. Chandrashekar is said to have touched 500.

Enquiries have revealed that the Department of Public Instruction, that comes under the Education Department, has given up its role in the transfers. Failing to figure out how to accommodate so many people, all in Bangalore, the department has furnished the list to the Education Department.

While this was embarrassing enough for the government, the Education Department is disposing of one transfer request after another on a case-by-case basis. Evidently, the department has made a mess of the transfers this year. The annual exercise of transfers always passed off as a non-affair during the previous Janata Dal regime.

With no general transfers this year, the state permitted transfers only to vacant posts laying down certain criteria, and ordered that they be completed before May 31. As for the Education Dept, the last date was extended up to June 31, but there seems to be no end.