Row on transfers: Accommodate extra teachers by creating supplementary posts

HYDERABAD: Amid the row over teacher transfers under GO 317, former MLC Mohan Reddy, the BJP retired employees cell convener, on Thursday suggested that if there are more teachers working in a district than the available vacancies, the extra personnel may be accommodated by creating supernumerary posts which will be extinguished with the retirement of the employee.

Speaking at a press meet on Thursday, Mohan Reddy said the Chief Minister had promised during the World Telugu Conference to create 10,000 grade-I bhasha (language) pundits in addition to 22,000 teacher posts. The unemployed need not lose hope of getting a job, and the BJP will fight till a logical solution is found to the issue, he said.

C. Vittal, former TSPSC member and party leader, said GO 124 issued in 2018 envisaged that the state government within a period of 36 months would organise classes of posts into various local cadres for different parts of the state. However no regulation of local cadre was taken up by the state government even after 36 months.

He alleged that GO 317 had become a cash cow for party leaders as every government employee wants to be posted in and around Hyderabad because of higher dearness allowance. He said that the Presidential Order 2018 on allotment of employees to new local cadre provides a relaxation.

"In exceptional circumstances, in the interests of the administrative needs and exigencies and in cases of undue hardship, government may allot an employee to any of the local cadres in relaxation of the above guideline,” the relaxation said and this was indiscriminately used by the government, Vittal said.