The Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT) has stayed the general transfers of higher secondary schoolteachers in the State after it found the Directorate of General Education to have violated its earlier instruction to provide due weightage to outstation service while considering transfers to home or nearby districts.
A tribunal bench comprising judicial member P.V. Asha and administrative member P.K. Kesavan issued an interim order on Wednesday on the basis of a plea by a group of 23 ‘outstation’ teachers who flagged violation of the prescribed norms as well as the tribunal’s orders by providing them nil weightage in the final transfer list published on February 16.
