Tuesday, 08 October 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The School Education department is planning to give compulsory retirement to the sick and incapable employees including teachers and officers. The Education minister Dhan Singh Rawat has directed the department to prepare a list of such employees who are either suffering from serious ailments or are incapable of discharging their duties.
In a recent meeting with the officers of the department, the minister said that being a department with large number of employees, there are many employees including officers, who are suffering from serious ailments due to which they are unable to discharge their duties. He said that all such employees should be identified and should be given compulsory retirement to increase the work efficiency in the department.
The minister also directed that the employees who are absent from their duties for many days should also be retired from service.
The minister’s order regarding identifying and giving compulsory retirement to teachers suffering from serious ailments assumes significance as there are a large number of such teachers and employees who claim to be suffering from diseases and have submitted documents supporting their claims. It is believed that there are reportedly many such employees who have feigned Illness in order to get transferred to easy to access schools or offices. The section 27 of the transfer act gives relaxation to such employees in transfers due to which many teachers and officers feign illness.
The minister has also directed the officers of the department to identify schools with less student enrollment and make arrangements of their merger in the nearest cluster schools.
