GO MS No 61 Lifting Ban on Employees Transfers in Telangana Schedule Procedure Criteria for Transfers Released

Telangana Employees Transfers Orders Released by Govt of TS Ban Lifted on Transfers in Telangana Employees and Teachers Transfers 2018 Schedule in Telangana released Schedule for Employees transfers in Telangana Released Procedure for Employees Transfers in Telangana Criterial for TS Teachers and Employees Released Vide GO MS No 61 Dated 24.05.2018 go-ms-no-61-lifting-ban-on-employees-telangana-schedue-procedure-criteria-transfers

O R D E R

Government in the reference first read above issued orders imposing ban on all transfers except in respect of certain cases referred therein. In the reference second read above, Government constituted a Committee of senior officers under the Chairmanship of Sri Ajay Misra, IAS, Special Chief Secretary to Government, Energy Department to formulate the “Transfer Guidelines” for all categories of employees, in consultation with the concerned stakeholders, with a direction to submit their recommendation for employees’ transfers, including Teachers, to Government.

The committee of senior officers submitted its report vide reference third read above, along with their recommendations/ guidelines in regard to transfers.

The Government, after careful consideration, hereby relax the ban on transfers imposed, vide reference first read above, for the period from 25th May, 2018 to 15th June, 2018. The HoDs and Competent Authorities shall follow the following guidelines while effecting transfer of employees.

I. Schedule for transfers:

a) The transfers shall be made from 25th May, 2018 to 15th June, 2018 as per the schedule shown in the Annexure-I.
b) The ban on transfers shall come into force with effect from 16th June, 2018.

II. Employees to be transferred 

a) No person shall be transferred before completion of two years of service in a particular station as on 31-05-2018.  The condition as to completion of two years, however, need not be followed in respect of

1. Transfers on spouse grounds and 
2. Employees transferred and provisionally ordered to serve in new districts during October, 2016.

b)    No person shall be retained beyond 5 years of service in a particular station as on 31st May, 2018. However, the employees who are retiring before 31st May, 2019 shall not be transferred even if they have completed five years of service unless they make a specific request for their transfer.

c)    To ensure that there is no dislocation of the work, not more than 40% of employees in any cadre shall be transferred.

III.    Priority criteria for consideration of options:  

a)    When more than one employee opts for a particular place and    while effecting the transfers, the competent authority shall give priority in the descending order as given below, subject to satisfaction of other conditions specified in this G.O. and the employee not facing charges in departmental/criminal proceedings:

i) Husband and Wife cases (only one of the spouse shall be shifted following the prescribed procedure).

ii) The employees retiring before 31st May, 2019, in case of their opting for transfers.

iii) Employees with disability of 70% or more as certified by a competent authority as per “Persons with Disabilities (P.W.D) (Equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) Act, 1995.

iv) Employees having mentally retarded children to a place where medical facilities are available.

v) Widows appointed under the compassionate appointment scheme.


vi) Medical grounds for the following diseases (either self or spouse or dependent children and dependent parents), to places where facilities are available for treatment. The employees who applied for priority under medical grounds shall be given preference in the following descending order.

1. Cancer
2. Neurosurgery 
3. Kidney Transplantation
4. Liver Transplantation
5. Open Heart Surgery 
6. Bone TB  

vii) Employees working in hardship areas.  Each department will identify such areas for their employees.

viii) The employee who has put in the longer service in a hardship area.

b) Once transfers are effected on personal or medical grounds, the Head of the Department will verify the truthfulness of the grounds of the reasons in a few test cases and report to Government if necessary, for further necessary action.

IV. Qualifying service & criteria: 

a) Service in all cadres at a station will be counted while calculating the period of stay.

b) Station means place (City, Town, Village) of actual working for the purpose of transfers and not office or institution.

c) The standing instructions on the transfers of office bearers of employees unions recognized, by the Government, as issued in Circular Memo No.20914/S.W.I/A2/2012-1 of G.A. (Services Welfare.I) Department, dt.26-06-2012 read with Circular Memo No.20914/S.W.I/A2/2012-2 of G.A. (Services Welfare.I) Department, dt.30-06-2012 shall be followed scrupulously.

d) The transfers shall be effected from focal to non-focal, and vice versa.  The focal and non-focal posts shall be identified by the department concerned.

V. Procedure for transfers:  

     To ensure that the transfer of employees is implemented in a transparent and objective manner, the following procedure shall be followed:

1. The HoDs / Competent Authority shall publish the list of incumbents working category wise and cadre wise, in all units under their jurisdiction, along with place and duration. 
2. Similarly, all clear vacancies shall also be published before seeking options from the employees.  
3. The Competent Authority shall publish a list of employees to be compulsorily transferred. 
4. The Competent Authority may obtain upto five options for preferential places of transfers from the employees in the prescribed proforma in Annexure-II. However, the Departments may modify the proforma according to their specific requirements.
5. The competent authority shall ensure that minimum operational staff is available in offices/ and functional units even in the hardship areas.  
6. In case, adequate personnel do not opt for hardship area, the system of lottery shall be followed for effecting transfers.
7. All transfers shall be done by counselling in a transparent manner.  Wherever possible, counselling will be done on online/web based application.
8. viii. To ensure transparency, all the notifications shall be published online or on the office notice board.

VI.      Special provisions for certain departments: 

a) Based on this transfer policy, Education Department will formulate detailed operational guidelines for transfer of Teachers/ Lecturers. 
b) The revenue earning departments viz. a) Commercial Taxes Department, b) Prohibition & Excise Department and c) Stamps & Registration Departments shall follow the separate guidelines issued in the G.O.Ms.No.143, Finance (W&M)Department, dt.21-06-2007. The Transport Department and Forest Department shall make the general transfers as per the guidelines issued in G.O.Ms.No.147, TR&B (Ser.IV) Department, dated. 12-06-2007 and G.O.Ms.No.81, EFS&T (For.V) Department, dated.08-07-2008, respectively.  Similarly the Police Department shall frame specific guidelines for transfer of police personnel separately.
c) The above mentioned departments, wherever required, may modify the existing Government Orders to meet their departmental requirements.

VII. Competent authority for transfers:

a)    All transfers shall be effected by the competent authorities as per the existing rules and orders on delegation. However the transfers shall be effected, with the approval of the committees constituted for this purpose as given in Table-1.
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