NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 78 and 99 of Telangana Education Act, 1982 and under Article 309 of the Constitution of India and in supersession of all the earlier Rules and Guidelines on Transfer of Teachers, the Government of Telangana hereby makes the following Rules regulating the transfers of the categories of Head Masters Gr.II (Gazetted), School Assistants and S.G.T.s and their equivalent categories working in the Government Schools and Z.P.P. and MPP Schools in the State of Telangana : -
Short Title and Applicability :
1) These Rules shall be called the Telangana Teachers (Regulation of Transfers) Rules, 2018.
2) These Rules shall be applicable to Head Masters/Head Mistresses, Gr.-II (Gazetted), School Assistants / SGTs and other equivalent categories working in Govt. /Zilla Parishad/ MPP Schools in the State of Telangana, herein
after referred to as Teachers in these Rules.
3) These rules shall come into force with immediate effect
Transfer counseling:
All transfers shall be made by way of online / web counseling for each erstwhile district / existing zone
Schedule of transfers
The Commissioner & Director of School Education, Telangana, Hyderabad, shall
communicate the procedural Guidelines and Schedule for the online / web counseling to the competent authorities.
Competent Authority for issue of transfer and posting orders:
i. District Educational Officer(DEO) of the erstwhile Revenue District for the School
Assistant/ SGT and equivalent cadres. The District Educational Officer of the erstwhile Revenue District shall consult the District Educational Officers of the newly formed 31 districts.
ii. Regional Joint Director of School Education concerned for Headmaster / Head Mistress Gr.II (Gazetted).
Criteria for Transfers:
1) The following categories of Head Masters/ Head Mistresses, Gr.II (Gazetted) / Teachers in the Government / ZPP /MPP schools shall be transferred: -
a) Head Masters/Head Mistresses, Gr.II (Gazetted), who have completed (5) years
of service in a particular School as on 31st May of the current year shall be
compulsorily transferred, provided those who are going to retire within two years
from 31st May of the current year shall not be shifted until and unless the incumbent requests for such transfer.
b) Teachers, who have completed (8) years
service in a particular school as on 31st
May of the current year shall be
compulsorily transferred, provided those
who are going to retire within two years
from 31st May of the current year shall not
be shifted until and unless the incumbent
requests for such transfer.
c) The Head Master(HM) Grade-II
(Gazetted) / Teacher aged below 50 years as
on 31st May of current year and working in
Girls' High School.
2) If no Head Mistress Grade II (Gazetted)/
women Teachers are available to work in
Girls' High Schools, then Head Master Grade
II (Gazetted)/ Male Teachers who are over and
above 50 years of age may be considered for
posting to such Schools.
3) Head Master/Head Mistress Gr.II (Gazetted) /
Teacher who has completed a minimum
period of two years service in a category of
post in a School as on 31st May of the current
year shall be eligible to apply for transfer.
4) The Head Master/ Head Mistress, Gr.II
(Gazetted) who has completed (5) year of
service and Teacher who has completed (8)
years of service as NCC Officer, shall be
posted in a vacancy in a School where there is
a NCC unit.
5) All transfers shall be affected within the
present Management, Agency Area to Agency
Area and Plain Area to Plain Area.
Entitlement Points:
I. Common points :
Entitlement points shall be awarded to the
Head Master/Head Mistress Gr.II (Gazetted)/
Teacher who applies for Transfer in the
following manner:-
a) For service in the present School, basing on
its location, as per the following scale, as on
31st May of the current year:-
i. Service in category IV areas: Five (5)
points for every year of service and 0.416
for every completed month.
ii. Service in Category III areas: Three (3)
points for every year of service and 0.25 for
every completed month.
iii. Service in the Category II areas: Two (2)
points for every year of service and 0.16 for
every completed month.
iv. Service in the Category I areas: One (1)
point for every year of service and 0.083 for
every completed month.
Note 1:- The Habitations / Towns shall be
classified into the following categories
namely:-
i. Category – I: All Habitations / Towns
where 20% and above HRA is
admissible.
ii. Category –II: All Habitations / Towns
where 14.5% HRA is admissible.
iii. Category –III: All Habitations / Towns
where 12% HRA is admissible.
iv. Category-IV: All Habitations / Towns
where 12 % HRA is admissible, and
which do not have connectivity through
an all weather road as per the norms of
the Panchayath Raj (Engineering)
Department.
Note 2:- The District Collector shall publish
the list of habitations in the district which
do not have connectivity through all
weather road as per the norms of
Panchayath Raj (Engineering) Department
in consultation with the Superintendent
Engineer, P.R. of the district for this
purpose, and the same shall be final.
(b) For the Service rendered: 0.041 point
for every one month of the completed
service in the total service in all categories
as on 31st May of the current year.
II. Special Points (Extra Points):
a. The President and General Secretary of the
Teachers' Associations having OD facility
in terms of G.O.Ms.No.515 GAD
dated.16.03.2018 and of the Associations
who availed entitlement points based on
Recognition in 2013 Teachers Transfers, at
the State and District Levels (erstwhile 10
districts only) are eligible for ten (10)
points.
b. Ten (10) points for un-married Head
Mistress, Gr- II / Female Teacher.
c. Ten (10) points for Head Master/ Head
Mistress Gr.II (Gazetted)/ Teacher, whose
spouse is working in State Government or
Central Government or Public Sector
Undertaking or Local Body or Aided
Institution in the same District and opted
for transfer nearer to and towards the place
of working of his/her spouse, benefit of
spouse points shall be applicable to the
Head Master/ Head Mistress Gr.II
(Gazetted) once in (5) years and Teachers
once in (8) years. An entry shall be made
in this regard in the Service Book. A copy
of the Certificate issued by the competent
authority shall be enclosed to the
application to consider cases under this
category.
d. Only one of the spouse is entitled for
spouse points, if both are working as
Teacher or HM, Grade-II (Gazetted) in
the same district.
III. In case the entitlement points of two or more
applicants are equal, the inter-se seniority shall be
determined as below:
i. Applicants having disability of more than
40% but less than 70% (Visually
challenged/ Ortho- handicap/ Hearing
Impaired) shall take priority.
ii. Subject to the above, the seniority in the
cadre shall be taken into account.
Performance Related Extra Entitlement Points:
Entitlement points for Performance :
Results of SSC March, 2018 in the concerned
subject for Teachers and overall percentage
for HMs Grade-II (Gazetted) of the High
Schools only :
For 100% Results – 2.5 Points.
For 99% to 95% Results – 2 Points.
For 94% to 90% Results – 1 Point
Preferential categories:
The following categories shall take precedence in
the seniority list, in the order given below,
irrespective of their entitlement points.
a. Physically challenged i.e., those with not less
than 70% Visually challenged / Ortho-
handicap./ Hearing Impaired and has to
enclose SADAREM Certificate or Medical
Board Certificate with the application.
b. Widows.
c. Legally separated women and not remarried.
d. Head Master/ Head Mistress, Gr.II
(Gazetted) / Teacher / their spouse, who is
suffering with the following diseases, in
which he/she is undergoing treatment:
I. Cancer.
II. Open Heart Surgery.
III. Neuro-Surgery.
IV. Bone T.B.
V. Kidney/Liver/Heart Transplantation.
e. Applicants with dependent children who are
mentally retarded/ suffering from
Leukaemia (Blood Cancer) and are undergoing treatment.
f. Applicants’ Children suffering with hole in
the heart by birth and undergoing medical
treatment available only at specified places
to which they are seeking transfers.
g. Applicants with dependent children
suffering from Juvenile Diabetes
Note 1: For the purpose of (d, e, f & g)
above, a copy of the Certificate issued by a
competent authority i.e., District Medical
Board / State Medical Board should be
enclosed to the application for
consideration of preferential categories.
Note 2: The Head Master/ Head
Mistress, Gr.II (Gazetted) should avail
either the preferential category (Rule 8) or
the Special Points (Rule 6 (II) (c) once in
(5) years, and Teachers should avail either
the preferential category (Rule 8) or the
Special Points (Rule 6 (II) (c) once in (8)
years, and an entry be made in the
Service Book.
Note 3 : For the purpose of (e, f, g) only one
parent is entitled for preference if both are
working as Teacher/ HM Grade-II
(Gazetted).
Online Application
1) The applicants have to submit only one
application online in the proforma prescribed
in the web counseling website.
2) The Head Master/ Head Mistress Gr.II
(Gazetted) / Teacher who is eligible as per
the criteria prescribed in Rule 5 shall apply
online through counseling website in the
prescribed proforma and the particulars
furnished in the proforma shall be final and
no modifications shall be allowed.
3) The applicants shall thereafter obtain the
printout of the application from the
counseling website and submit the same duly
signed to their respective authorities, viz.,
Mandal Educational Officer/Head Master/
Head Mistress of the High School, as the
case may be.
4) An applicant seeking to apply under
Preferential categories / spouse category
shall also submit along with the application,
the latest Certificate from the competent
authority in that regard.
5) If any Head Master/Head Mistress, Gr.II
(Gazetted) / Teacher who is compulsorily
transferable under Rule 5 does not apply
online, he/she will be transferred to the
available, left over, needy vacancy.
Notification of vacancies:
The following vacancies shall be notified for the
purpose of online web counseling in the
specified website and also displayed in the O/o
DEO, concerned.
a) All the vacancies arising due to
compulsory transfers as per Rule 5.
Notification of seniority list etc.:
1) The following lists shall be displayed in the
counseling website and also displayed at the O/o
Regional Joint Director of School Education and
District Educational Officer concerned:-
i. The lists of category wise schools
(Category I, II, III and IV),
ii. The School wise vacancy position of Head
Master/ Head Mistress Gr.II (Gazetted) /
School Assistant / Secondary Grade Teacher
and equivalent categories for web counseling.
iii. Subject to the procedure prescribed in
clause (2) below, the list of names of the
Head Master/ Head Mistress, Gr.II (Gazetted)
/ Teacher who applied for transfer with
entitlement points.
2) After the last date for applying for transfers
as per Schedule and validation of the information
provided in the applications by the competent
authority, the seniority list shall be generated by
the web counseling software based on the
entitlement points, management wise; district
wise / zone wise; category wise; subject wise;
medium wise (except for Language Teachers and
HMs Grade-II (Gazetted); area wise i.e. agency /
plain area and the seniority list with entitlement
points shall be displayed in the counseling
website and also on the notice board of the
District Educational Office / Regional Joint
Director of School Education Office concerned.
Receipt and disposal of objections:
1) Objections if any in respect of the vacancy
list and seniority list as per entitlement
points, published as per Rule 11, shall be
filed in writing before the District
Educational Officer / Regional Joint Director
of School Education, as the case may be, by
the applicant, together with evidence in
support of such objection, within the time
specified for this purpose in the Schedule.
2) The District Educational Officer / Regional
Joint Director of School Education, as the
case may be, shall cause verification of
all objections and pass orders disposing of
the same. In cases where objections are
upheld, the District Educational Officer
(DEO)/ Regional Joint Director (RJD) of
School Education make the necessary
corrections in the vacancy / seniority list
concerned and display the same in the
counseling website and also display at the O/o
the DEO / RJD of School Education as the
case may be.
Committees for approving the transfers:
The applicants shall exercise options online in
the counseling website for the vacancies
mentioned at Rule 10. Based on the seniority as
per entitlement points and the options exercised
for the vacancies mentioned at Rule 10 and also
the resultant vacancies that will arise during the
web counseling, the web counseling software
will generate transfer posting lists.
The following Committees are constituted for
the purpose of approving the transfer posting
lists:-
(I) For Transfer of Head Master/ Head
Mistress, Gr.II (Gazetted) in
Government High Schools :
(a) Senior Officer of the Department
nominated by the Director of School
Education, not below the rank of a Joint
Director.
(b) The Regional Joint Director of School
Education concerned or his nominee as the
Member Secretary.
(c) The District Educational Officer
concerned as a Member.
Note:
i. The senior most officer shall be the
Chairman of the Committee.
ii. The Committee shall approve the transfer
posting lists of all the Head Masters/ Head
Mistresses, Gr.II (Gazetted) in the
Government High Schools in the
respective Zone, as generated by the web
counseling software.
iii. The Regional Joint Director of School
Education concerned shall be the
competent authority to issue transfer and
posting orders of the Head Masters/ Head
Mistresses, Gr.II (Gazetted) working in
Government High Schools, after the
approval of the Committee.
(II) For Transfer of Head Master/Head Mistress
Gr. II (Gazetted) in Zilla Parishad High
Schools:
(a) Chairman, ZP – Chairperson
(b) Collector – Vice Chairperson
(c) Joint Collector – Member.
(d) Chief Executive Officer Z. P. – Member.
(e) RJDSE or his nominee -- Member
Secretary.
Note:
i. The Committee shall approve the transfer
posting list of all the Head Masters/ Head
Mistresses Gr.II (Gazetted) in the ZP High
Schools in the district as generated by the
web counseling software.
ii. The Regional Joint Director of School
Education concerned shall be the competent
authority to issue transfer and posting
orders of the Head Masters/ Head
Mistresses Gr.II (Gazetted) working in ZP
High Schools, after the approval of the
Committee.
(III) For Transfer of Teachers in Government
High Schools
(f) Collector – Chairperson
(g) Joint Collector – Vice Chairperson
(h) Chief Executive Officer Z. P. – Member
(i) District Educational Officer – Member
Secretary
iv. For Transfer of Teachers in Zilla Parishad /
MPP Schools
a) Chairman, ZP – Chairperson.
b) Collector – Vice Chairperson .
c) Joint Collector - Member.
d) Chief Executive Officer Z. P. – Member.
e) District Educational Officer – Member
Secretary.
Note: The District Educational Officer as per
Rule 4 shall be the competent authority to
issue transfer posting orders to all the
Teachers working in the Government
Schools and ZPP / MPP Schools after the
approval of the Committees III & IV above
respectively.
Issue of transfer orders:
1) The Teacher / HM, Grade-II (Gazetted) who
are to be compulsorily transferred and who
do not opt for web counseling, shall be given
posting orders for the left over, available,
needy vacancies at the end of the web
counseling of that particular category of
Teachers, after the approval of the
Committee concerned by the Competent
Authority.
2) Head Master/ Head Mistress Gr.II (Gazetted)
/ Teacher shall not be posted in the Schools
located in the same Gram Panchayat, if they
have completed (5) years and (8) years of
service respectively.
3) Once transfer orders are issued by the
Competent Authority after the approval of the
Committee concerned, review or
modification of the orders shall not be
considered either by the Committee or by the
Competent Authority.
4) The transfers affected shall be displayed in
the counseling website and also at the office
of the Regional Joint Director of School
Education and District Educational Officer
concerned.
Date of relief and joining:
1) The Head Master/Head Mistress Gr.II
(Gazetted) / Teachers who are on transfer
shall be relieved from their present place of
working on receipt of the transfer orders
and he / she shall join in the school
where they are posted on the next day of
serving of t h e orders.
2) A Head Master/ Head Mistress Gr.II
(Gazetted) / Teacher who does not so join
Appeal:
1) An appeal against the orders of the District
Educational Officer shall lie with the
Regional Joint Director of School Education
concerned, and an appeal against the orders
of the Regional Joint Director of School
Education shall lie with the Commissioner
and Director of School Education. Such
appeal should be submitted within 10 days of
the receipt of the transfer orders.
2) All such appeals shall be disposed off by the
Appellate authorities concerned, within 15
days from the date of receipt of the appeal.
Punishment for furnishing false information / violation of rules:
1) Anybody who submits false information and
Certificates and the officers who countersign
such false information, shall be liable for
disciplinary action in addition to prosecution,
as per rules.
2) If any Member-Secretary issues orders in
violation of these rules or instructions issued
by the Commissioner & Director of School
Education from time to time in the matter, he
/ she shall be liable for disciplinary action as
per rules
.