Vision Kalahandi 2020 vetoes college teachers’ mass transfer

The Pioneer, June 2, 2010
PNS, Bhubaneswar
The Vision Kalahandi 2020 (VK-20) has also urged the Chief Minister against the mass transfer of the Government college teachers.

The body of intelligentsia strongly feels that such a stance is detrimental to the KBK region’s interests, especially the Government Autonomous College Bhawanipatna (GACB) and Government Women’s College Bhawanipatna (GWCB).

VK-20 convener AK Nanda, in his petition to the CM, has presented his personal experience of over two decades in the leading colleges of Kalahandi and Bolangir districts both as teacher and principal.

He states that, in colleges of KBK region, invariably if a teacher is transferred from the zone, the reliever never joins and the post remains vacant for years.

Evidently, at present there are more than 58 per cent vacancies in the Government colleges in Kalahandi. Nanda has also reminded that VK-20 is a totally apolitical forum formed in Kalahandi after the failure of Central University Movement organised by the intellectuals during the 2000s.

The forum includes within its fold political leaders irrespective of party affiliations, youths, students, professionals and social activists and has prepared its visualised document in the development of Kalahandi and Nuapada districts in education, infrastructure, industry, agriculture and horticulture by 2020.

VK-20 puts forth before the State Government few humble suggestions in a bid to safeguard the interests of the KBK region.

Teachers who are not interested for transfer from the Government colleges in the KBK districts should not be disturbed. In 2004, the GACB has obtained Centre for Potential Excellence (CPE) status from the University Grant Commission (UGC) and started many technical subjects.

Many teachers from the GACB have already undergone training to teach the technical subjects. If they will be transferred, their post cannot be filled up and the subjects will be abolished, Nanda argues. Many teachers are also guiding the M Phil dissertations for the 2010 batch.

Research topics have already been allotted to the students and in the event of the transfer of the guide, the M Phil students are likely to suffer.

Teachers who are interested for transfer after completion of six years must not be relieved unless their relievers join first. The six-year criteria of station seniority for transfer should be stringently applied for all time to come and it should be automatic. All vacant posts, including the post of principal in the KBK districts, particularly in Kalahandi and Nuapada, should be filled on priority basis.

“College administration is something different from the general administration,” Nanda remarks quipping the incumbent of the office must be a regular one so that he/she would administer the institution effectively.

Nanda has also alleged that the regular principal post has been lying vacant in the GACB since a decade and the Higher Education Department is totally callous to the problem.