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Teacher-transfer counselling begins today

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI June 12. The counselling session for deciding on transfer applications of teachers of government colleges in the State will be held in Chennai on Friday and Saturday. On the first day, the applications of teachers of Economics, Mathematics, Tamil, Political Science, Indian Culture, Cooperation, Philosophy, Public Administration, Defence Studies, Psychology, Other Languages, Sociology and Music would be dealt with in the morning session. The afternoon session will deal with transfer of English, History and Education teachers.

On the second day, the morning session would be for teachers of Botany, Zoology, Home Science, Biochemistry, Statistics, Geology, Geography and Computer science, and the afternoon session for Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physical Science and Library Sciences teachers.

While the Tamil Nadu Government Collegiate Teachers Association welcomes continuation of the ``counselling system which offers more transparency at minimum cost and complaint-levels,'' it is concerned that the system offered no solace for teachers in `one-man departments', especially in rural colleges. Already, about 1,000 posts remain vacant and unfilled in government colleges in moffussil and rural areas, says the association general secretary, S. Ganesan. A staff member in such one-man departments has no chance of transfer. Also, while teachers in rural colleges secure transfers to urban institutions, few teachers seek to go to rural colleges.

Official sources say that starting this year a new condition has been imposed for transfers, under which at least two third of the sanctioned teacher strength should remain in a department, i.e., if a department has 10 teachers, not more than four teachers would be allowed to get transfer to other colleges so that at least six teachers would remain in the department.

Dr. Ganesan suggests that to ensure that rural colleges did not suffer from a continued vacancy position, further recruitment in government colleges be done with the condition that the recruit would have to serve in a rural institution for three years.

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