Lok Sabha Question No. 591 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-02-06
Subject: Transfer of Teachers
Ministry: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: JANARDAN MISHRA, NINONG ERING

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF SCHOOL EDUCATION & LITERACY

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 591 TO BE ANSWERED ON 06.02.2017

## TRANSFER OF TEACHERS

## † 591.   SHRI JANARDAN MISHRA: SHRI NINONG ERING:

- Will the Minister of HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state: (a) the details of transfer policy of the Government for the teachers in Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodaya Vidyalayas in the country including measures taken as part of the policy to address regional disparities amongst the schools; (b) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  give  relaxation  in  certain  specific  cases  for transfer to deemed vacancy in Navodaya Vidyalayas and if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the details of the employees in said Vidyalayas covered by the transfer policy, State/UTwise?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (SHRI UPENDRA KUSHWAHA)

(a) A statement indicating the salient features of transfer guidelines in respect of employees of  Kendriya  Vidyalaya  Sangathan  (KVS)  and  Navodaya  Vidyalaya  Samiti  (NVS)  are  at Annexure-I.

KVS teachers have all India transfer liability and they are posted to the KVs across the country  keeping  in  view  the  functional  requirements  irrespective  of  geographical,  socio economic  and  other  regional  disparities.  Similarly,  the  teachers  in  NVS  also  have  All  India Transfer Liability and transfer takes place to their preferred JNVs/State/Region on completion of stipulated tenure.

- (b) The Commissioner, NVS with the prior approval of the Chairman, NVS is competent to transfer any employee to any place in relaxation of any or all the provisions of transfer policy by giving justified reasons for giving relaxation. As such, relaxation is equally applicable to both the cases of deemed vacancies and actual vacancies.
- (c) The  details  of  the  employees  in  said  Vidyalayas  covered  by  the  transfer  policy, State/UT-wise of KVS & NVS is at Annexure-II.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 591  RAISED  BY  SHRI  JANARDAN  MISHRA  &  SHRI  NINONG  ERING,  HON'BLE  MEMBERS  OF PARLIAMENT TO BE ANSWERED ON 6 TH  FEBRUARY 2017 REGARDING TRANSFER OF TEACHERS

## SALIENT FEATURES OF KVS TRANSFER GUIDELINES

-  Transfer guidelines are based on the principles of Transfer Counts & Displacement Counts. An employee having  higher  transfer  counts  would  receive  priority  in  transfer  over  an  employee  having  lower  transfer counts.  Similarly,  an  employee  having  higher  displacement  counts  would  be  displaced  first  than  an employee who has lower displacement counts.
-  Transfer  Counts  &  Displacement  Counts  are  provided  to  an  employee  on  the  basis  of  some  fixed parameters, like period of stay at a place, posting of his/her spouse if working, Medical conditions of self & family,  woman  employee,  widow,  Single  Parent,  physically  challenged  employee,  if  an  employee  has dependant disabled child, if he/she has completed a tenure at a Hard/Very Hard and NER stations, an Award winner teacher, a member of JCM, having Outstanding APARs or Below average APARs etc.
-  Employees who fall under the category of less than three years to retire (LTR), Medical Ground (MDG), Death  of  Family  Person  (DFP),  Widow,  Single  Parent,  Physically  Challenged  employee  and  who  have completed tenure at Hard/ Very Hard and NER stations will get highest transfer counts for getting their transfer at their choice station(s).
-  Female  teachers  earn  extra  Transfer  Counts  in  comparison  to  Male  Teachers  to  get  their  transfer  at station/place of their choice.
-  Spouse Cases have been given priority for getting transfer to join spouse at the posting place of spouse or within a distance of 100 kilometers of work place.
-  Scheme of Mutual Transfer (twice in their entire  career)  has  been  adopted  from  the  academic  session 2016-17.
-  An employee can seek his/ her transfer against a vacant post which remains unfilled during annual transfer process under the provision or 'No Taker Vacancy'.
-  Employees having dependent disabled children or children appearing in class XII board examinations are exempt from displacement transfer on year to year basis. Employees with disabled children can give 7 choices of stations for seeking their transfers for the better treatment of children.
-  Eight  types  of  serious  medical  conditions  (diseases)  have  been  included  in  the  list  of  medical  category [MDG] so that affected employees may get their transfer on priority at desired place to avail better medical facilities/family care.
-  Award winner employees and members of JCM at regional level or national level have been given minus displacement counts to provide them some immunity from being displaced frequently.
-  Only those employees having longest period of stay at the station are displaced from their place of posting who are to accommodate the employees of Priority Categories.
-  Annual transfer  process  made  fully  Information  Technology  enabled.  This  year  all  teachers/  employees have applied for their transfers online and transfer orders are also being generated through an automated process. This way full transparency in transfers has been secured.
-  To  effect  the  process  of  annual  transfers,  the  KVS  prepared  a  calendar  of  activities  so  that  transfer process can be completed in a time bound manner.

## SALIENT FEATURES OF NVS TRANSFER GUIDELINES

- A) All employees are liable to be transferred anywhere in the country.
- B) Primarily transfer is done on request basis to the choice place subject to the availability of vacancies.
- C) The employee becomes eligible to seek request transfer after completion of the prescribed tenure in a present post and present station.
- D) The normal tenure for employees of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas is 10 years except the post of Principal,  Vice  Principal  and  Office  Superintendent.  Tenure  of  Principal,  Vice  Principal  and  Office Superintendent is 5 years.
- E) Tenure  for  very  hard  and  difficult  stations  (i.e.  Leh,  Kargil,  Tawang,  Anjaw,  Lahaul  Spiti  &  Dibang Valley) is 2 years.
- F) Cut of date for determining the eligibility in terms of completion of tenure is 1 st January of the year of transfer.
- G) Employee gets protection from being transferred to another place within the period of two  years of retirement.
- H) Similarly  employee  gets  exempted  from  transfer  to  North  Eastern  Region  /  Hard  &  Difficult  station once he / she attains 50 years of age.
- I) Transfer is effected against actual vacancy and deemed vacancy.
- J) Deemed  vacancy  is  the  vacancy  where  the  present  incumbent  has  served  10  years  and  more  in present  station.  It  is  in  general  not  applicable  to  differently  abled  employee,  employee  unified  with spouse or suffering from serious ailment.
- K) Samiti conducts Special Recruitment Drive to post teachers in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas of North Eastern Region and hard & difficult stations of Jammu & Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. Under this process teachers are required to work for a period of 10 years by signing a bond for the very purpose of providing quality education without interruption in the aforesaid areas.
- L) Samiti resorts to this provision because most of the teachers are unwilling to serve in hard & difficult stations and adequate teachers from the local areas are not available.
- M)  Transfer to a choice place is effected on the basis of transfer count in decreasing order. In case of tie in  the transfer count of two or more employees competing for a location, the female employee gets first  preference. In case of tie in two or more employees of the same gender, employee with earlier date  of  joining  in  the  present  post  in  present  station  gets  preference.  If  the  date  of  joining  also coincides, the older employee gets preference.
- N) On the basis of above features transfer is effected in the following order of priorities: -
- i) Transfer of differently abled employees to their choice place
16. ii) Transfer of employees who are suffering from serious ailment / disease including their spouse and children as mentioned in Transfer Policy.
17. iii) Transfer of employees completing mandatory tenure at very hard, hard & NER Stations.
18. iv) Transfer of husband / wife to a station / nearby station for unification with spouse.
- v) Transfer of employees willing to serve hard & difficult stations.
20. vi) Transfer of rest of the employees.
- O) The following cases of transfer are not governed under the transfer count.
- i) Transfer of differently abled employees (and employee having differently abled dependents) which is governed as per instructions of DOPT OM No. AB/14017/16/2002-Estt. (RR) dated 13 th September 2002 & OM No. 42011/3/2014-Estt (Res.) dated 6 th June 2014.
23. ii) Transfer of employees suffering from serious ailments / disease including their spouse and children as mentioned in Transfer Policy.
24. iii) Employees working under Special Recruitment Drive and completing the bond period in hard & difficult station. It is obligatory for the Samiti to transfer them out of hard & difficult stations.
25. iv) Transfer  of  husband  and  wife  to  a  station  /  nearby  station  for  unification  with  spouse  in accordance  with  the  guidelines  of  DOPT  No.  28034/9/2009-Estt  (A)  dated  30 th September 2009.
- P) Regional Language Teachers are governed by the Rotational Transfer Policy of the Samiti.
- i) They get transfer from outside the Native State to the Native State and vice-versa.
28. ii) Minimum tenure for outward transfer (native state to outside state) is 5 years.
29. iii) There is no minimum tenure for inward transfer (i.e. from outside State to native State), if a vacancy exists.
30. iv) In case no vacancy exist in the native state, then the teacher serving outside the native state and  completing  5  years  there  gets  the  right  of  displacing  the  teacher  of  native  state  who completes 5 years or more.
- v) Exemption for transfer from native to outside state are: -
32.  Attaining 50 years age
33.  Having working spouse in native state

The case of physical handicapped and serious ailment.

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ANNEXURE REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (c) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 591  RAISED  BY  SHRI  JANARDAN  MISHRA  &  SHRI  NINONG  ERING,  HON'BLE  MEMBERS  OF PARLIAMENT TO BE ANSWERED ON 6 TH  FEBRUARY 2017 REGARDING TRANSFER OF TEACHERS

## DETAILS OF STATE/ UT -WISE TOTAL NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF KVS & NVS AND COVERED UNDER TRANSFER GUIDELINES

| S. NO.   | Name of State/UTs      |   Number of employees of KVS | Number of employees of NVS   |
|----------|------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------------|
| 1        | ANDHRA PRADESH         |                          832 | 523                          |
| 2        | ANDMAN &NIKOBAR ISLAND |                           95 | 43                           |
| 3        | ARUNACHAL PRADESH      |                          225 | 305                          |
| 4        | ASSAM                  |                         1572 | 924                          |
| 5        | BIHAR                  |                         1627 | 1249                         |
| 6        | CHANDIGARH             |                          323 | 46                           |
| 7        | CHHATISGARH            |                          732 | 483                          |
| 8        | DELHI                  |                         3844 | 82                           |
| 9        | GOA                    |                          121 | 68                           |
| 10       | GUJARAT                |                         1622 | 656                          |
| 11       | HARYANA                |                         1227 | 744                          |
| 12       | HIMACHAL PRADESH       |                          656 | 419                          |
| 13       | JAMMU& KASHMIR         |                          943 | 430                          |
| 14       | JHARKHAND              |                         1025 | 678                          |
| 15       | KARNATAKA              |                         1321 | 961                          |
| 16       | KERALA                 |                         1371 | 529                          |
| 17       | MADHYA PRADESH         |                         3299 | 1675                         |
| 18       | MAHARASTRA             |                         2366 | 1125                         |
| 19       | MANIPUR                |                          160 | 356                          |
| 20       | MEGHALAYA              |                          191 | 210                          |
| 21       | MIZORAM                |                           70 | 100                          |
| 22       | NAGALAND               |                           69 | 177                          |
| 23       | ODISHA                 |                         1482 | 848                          |
| 24       | PUNJAB                 |                         1788 | 713                          |
| 25       | RAJASTHAN              |                         2861 | 1243                         |
| 26       | SIKKIM                 |                           56 | 130                          |
| 27       | TAMILNADU              |                         1112 | Nil*                         |
| 28       | TELANGANA              |                         1068 | 328                          |
| 29       | TRIPURA                |                          186 | 124                          |
| 30       | DAMAN AND DIU          |                           17 | 47                           |
| 31       | DADAR &NAGAR HAVELI    |                           26 | 29                           |
| 32       | LAKSHADWEEP            |                           17 | 26                           |
| 33       | PUDUCHERY              |                           70 | 148                          |
| 34       | UTTAR PRADESH          |                         5823 | 2521                         |
| 35       | UTTRAKHAND             |                         1616 | 417                          |
| 36       | WEST BENGAL            |                         1834 | 377                          |
| Total    | Total                  |                        41647 | 18734                        |

*Tamil Nadu has not accepted the scheme of JNVs

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