Teachers from different districts of the State moved the Hyderabad High Court on Thursday, challenging the guidelines and orders issued by the Telangana School Education department over transfers.
Over 20 writ petitions were filed before the division bench of the HC comprising Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice J. Uma Devi seeking declaration of the Government Order no. 35 as illegal on different grounds. Some of them wanted the Government to confine the transfers to newly created districts.
For example, teachers working in the newly created Warangal Urban district, Isnapur, Patancheru and Ramachandrapuram areas of Sanga Reddy district, Nagarkurnool district and Yadadri district maintained that the transfers must be made within the territorial jurisdictions of the newly created districts in which they were presently working.
If the transfers are made based on the territorial jurisdiction of erstwhile districts, a teacher working in Warangal Urban (newly created district) can be posted to an interior place in united Warangal district. In some cases, teachers working in agency areas questioned the Government's orders to transfer them again to an agency area.
They represented to the bench that they were appointed in ‘plains areas’ and hence should not be transferred to another agency. They appealed to the bench to be given an option to be posted to ‘plains areas’ from agency areas.
Contempt plea
The contempt petition filed by Congress MLAs Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and S.A. Sampath Kumar is likely to come up for hearing before Justice B. Siva Sankara Rao on Friday.
Counsel for the two legislators filed the contempt petition in which it was stated that the Telangana Government had failed to comply with the order of the judge.