Citizens irked as Punjab govt reinstate ban on teachers’ transfer

Punjab provincial government on Friday took an abrupt u-turn on its earlier policy and reinstated ban on teachers’ transfers all over the province.

Chief Minister of Punjab Usman Buzdar had last week announced to relax the ban on teachers’ transfers until November 21.

The move apparently surprised PTI’s own provincial education minister who claimed in a tweet that the ban on transfer was placed directly by CM office and not by education department.

The revision of Transfer Policy and placement of Ban on Transfer has been put by CM Punjab Office. Please direct your questions & queries @CMOfficePunjab

— Murad Raas (@DrMuradPTI) November 9, 2018

The sudden reinstation of transfer ban was met with widespread criticism by general public who took to social media to complain about unfriendly policies of Punjab govt.

میری بیٹی کی ٹرانسفر پہلے لاہور سے ہوئی کہا بین ہے ۔ بین ختم ہوا ۔ میرٹ بنا ۔ 4 جگہ میرٹ لسٹوں میں نام آ گیا ۔ لیکن جب خدا خدا کرکے وقت آیا تو پھر پالیسی معطل کردی ۔ اللہ آپ کو درست فیصلے کرنے کی توفیق عطاء فرمائے ۔ آج سخت مایوس ہوں ۔ pic.twitter.com/AJkX9J4xD2

— Ch.Muhammad Ilyas (@ChIlyassngpl) November 9, 2018

If u do so we teachers will start to hate ur govt. We have voted u not for this.

— Nimra Zahid (@nimoo23) November 9, 2018

@ShabazGil @UsmanAKBuzdar U TURN party, made huge mistake to vote Pti, playing with the emotions of thousands of married female teachers, just sham

— Jamshaid Mohay -Ud- Din (@KingOfPersia8) November 9, 2018

Joke with teachers.. aisy la aen ga quality ap log. ap log teachers ka sath mazaq kr ka.. ap kis chaz ka minister's hain SED ka.. u should resign

— Ahmad buzdar (@buzdar_tauqeer) November 9, 2018

So sad sir teachers were waiting desperately for transfers and we have lot of hopes from PTI govt. Please clear this. What is the reason?

— ?MUJEEB BHUTTO? (@pakistanmyname) November 9, 2018

The ban on transfers of schoolteachers was imposed in 2016 while at this time around 50,000 schoolteachers had submitted applications seeking transfers