Rajasthan
Grade-3 Teachers: Gehlot govt’s failure to transfer Grade-3 teachers alienated many Jaipur | Jaipur News
Jaipur: The teachers’ community in the state has been disappointed with the outgoing Ashok Gehlot government’s decision to not transfer Grade-3 teachers in the past five years.
The transfer of Grade-3 teachers had been on halt for the past five years in the state, prompting frequent protests by the teachers. In September, while addressing an official programme on Teachers’ Day, Gehlot had said that “some governments transfer teachers before the elections, which is not a good practice”.
Teachers said that many of them posted in the Mewar and Wagad regions for years had been angry with the Congress government and that it cost the party a few seats in the assembly polls.Out of 28 seats in these two regions, BJP won 17, Congress seven, and the newly formed Bharat Adivasi Party (BPA) won three.
“Teachers posted for years in districts which are part of the tribal subplan region nursed resentment against the Congress government because they were only given assurances. Teachers chose to vote out the local leaders as the latter could not help them with transfers to return to their home districts,” said Narayan Singh, member of a teachers’ association in the state.
The teachers also alleged that in many districts, local leaders took bribes for working on even genuine requests for transfers for medical emergencies. “The state government assured the teachers several times that a transfer policy is being made, but nothing materialised by the end of the government’s term. This led to posts lying vacant in schools at many places. While on the one hand, the teachers, being government employees, faced the dilemma of not getting OPS benefits if they voted for BJP, a section of them were angry with the Congress government over not getting any growth in their profession,” said Vipin Prakash Sharma, senior vice-president of Rajasthan Primary and Secondary Education Teachers’ Association.
Teachers in the state were also demanding that contractual hirings in the education department must be stopped and that the jobs of those already employed must be regularised from the day they started working.
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The transfer of Grade-3 teachers had been on halt for the past five years in the state, prompting frequent protests by the teachers. In September, while addressing an official programme on Teachers’ Day, Gehlot had said that “some governments transfer teachers before the elections, which is not a good practice”.
Teachers said that many of them posted in the Mewar and Wagad regions for years had been angry with the Congress government and that it cost the party a few seats in the assembly polls.Out of 28 seats in these two regions, BJP won 17, Congress seven, and the newly formed Bharat Adivasi Party (BPA) won three.
“Teachers posted for years in districts which are part of the tribal subplan region nursed resentment against the Congress government because they were only given assurances. Teachers chose to vote out the local leaders as the latter could not help them with transfers to return to their home districts,” said Narayan Singh, member of a teachers’ association in the state.
The teachers also alleged that in many districts, local leaders took bribes for working on even genuine requests for transfers for medical emergencies. “The state government assured the teachers several times that a transfer policy is being made, but nothing materialised by the end of the government’s term. This led to posts lying vacant in schools at many places. While on the one hand, the teachers, being government employees, faced the dilemma of not getting OPS benefits if they voted for BJP, a section of them were angry with the Congress government over not getting any growth in their profession,” said Vipin Prakash Sharma, senior vice-president of Rajasthan Primary and Secondary Education Teachers’ Association.
Teachers in the state were also demanding that contractual hirings in the education department must be stopped and that the jobs of those already employed must be regularised from the day they started working.
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