The Arunachal Pradesh state cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Pema Khandu, has approved the “Arunachal Pradesh Teachers’ Transfer & Posting Policy, 2020” to ensure need-based distribution of teachers to protect the academic interest of students and optimise job satisfaction among the teachers in a free and transparent manner.
Features
- Under the new policy, all the government schools will be divided into three categories – hard, middle and soft. Geography, lack of infrastructure and reluctance of teachers to work beyond their comfort zones are the reasons for this categorisation.
- All new recruits will be given a hard posting for a mandatory three years, inclusive of their probation period. The next five years will be in schools with levels of medium difficulty, followed by posting in soft schools.
Reason
- Teacher absenteeism has been a major issue across 3,513 government schools, including 211 community schools, in the State. The student-teacher ratio has consequently been skewed in favour of urban centres with better connectivity.
- The Education Department has been facing difficulties in posting 16,594 regular teachers in remote areas where schools have adequate students, but hardly anyone to teach them.
