Javadekar earns CIC praise for ending discretionary transfers

New Delhi, Feb 14 (PTI) HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar has earned the praise of Central Information Commission for not using his discretionary power to transfer employees of Kendriya Vidyalayas.

Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu was informed by a representative of Kendriya Vidyalaya that Javadekar has not used his discretionary power under paragraph 13 of transfer guidelines of the KVS and 7,000 transfers have been effected only on the basis of matrix of the organisation.

The case came before Acharyulu while he was hearing the petition of an applicant



whose brother was transferred on the orders of former HRD Minister Smriti Irani.

The teacher had spent several years at Aizawl, considered as "hard station" in the transfer matrix of the KVS, before being transferred to Jaipur but was further transferred to border district of Sri Ganganagar.

The petitioner claimed that his brother was transferred in an "unjust" manner without giving him chance to complete even an year at Jaipur and was not even given allowance as the organisation considered it as "on request" transfer.