Kendriya Vidyalaya teachers' transfer policy amended

The Amendments in the transfer guidelines regarding Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan Schools were approved on 03.11.2010. The approval was undertaken in the 89th Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan, chaired by Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development.


The guiding principles of the proposed policy are:

Provide a fair chance to every employee of getting a choice posting;

Do this in a transparent manner;

Try to balance employee aspirations and organizational needs;

 Carry out the exercise in a reasonable time frame to reduce modification requests;

Assigning appropriate points to relevant factors;

Using the cumulative score as the basis for the transfer, both for transfer in and transfer out;

 Choices of the persons being displaced to be considered;

 No blanket exemptions;

Posting to hard stations, both, for ladies as well as others;

Age for such postings to be 40 years and Minimum three years tenure at the place of first posting to be uniformly applied.