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All Transfers To Be Made Through Online Mode Via Online Transfer Portal

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SRINAGAR: The School Education Department Monday said it may transfer surplus teachers of the department without taking into consideration their period of stay and said that all the transfers shall be made through online mode only.
Principal Secretary, School Education Department, Alok Kumar said, “All transfers shall be made through online mode via Online Transfer Portal for which the department shall issue Notification every year at the end of the Academic Session and such process shall be completed before the commencement of new Academic Session.”
The salient principles of the policy state that Directorates of School Education shall maintain a complete e-database on transfer and postings of employees for effective implementation of transfer policy.
According to the transfer Policy for Employees of the department, Kumar however said that on administrative exigencies, offline transfers can also be affected with the approval of the competent authority.
“The surplus employee in a school or institution shall be transferred without taking into consideration their period of stay,” he said.
The areas have been categorized as zone I, II and III, IV and V. The tenure of the employees in Zone-I, II and III shall ordinarily be three years, at a particular school while Zone-IV and V shall ordinarily be two years and one year respectively, at a particular school.
However, the mentioned tenure shall not be applicable to an employee who is willing to serve or continue in Zone III, IV and V.
“Tenure for transfer of officers on administrative posts Viz CEOs, Principals, Headmasters, ZEOs and equivalent shall ordinarily be two years with a maximum period of three years,” it reads.

The policy also states that in Zones VI and V, the period spent outside the actual place of posting on account of deputation, deployment, attachment and leave shall not be considered for claiming maximum tenure for transfer.
“Employees would be rotated between Zone-I, II, III and VI as far as practicable. In addition, there will be Zone-V which shall comprise difficult locations or in-accessible areas within the UT,” it reads.
Kumar said that an employee who has served in Zone-V will preferably be given posting in Zone-I and II to the extent possible. “Employees shall generally have to serve in Zones-III, VI and V on promotions, whether immediately or later, unless specifically excluded by the Administrative Department on some reasonable grounds.”
He said that the new appointees shall be posted in Zones-III, VI and Vas far as practicable.
Pertinently, Zone-I falls within municipal limit of district headquarter, Zone-II outside municipal limit upto 20km from district headquarter, Zone-III beyond 20km to 40Kms from district headquarter, Zone-IV beyond 40kms and above from district headquarter and also where change of residence is required. In addition, those schools where there is no motorable road and walking distance from the nearest motorable road is 7 KMs or more one way.
Zone-V is in-accessible areas in the UT of JK.
“The employees appointed under SRO-202 shall be eligible for transfer only after completion of five years tenure on the post against which they have been appointed,” Kumar said.
He further said that the employees appointed under UT, Divisional or District cadre shall be transferable only within their own cadre and shall in no case be transferable from one Divisional cadre to another Divisional cadre or District Cadre, or from one District cadre to another District cadre or Divisional cadre post except as per the provisions as laid down.
“In case of shortage of Teaching Staff in any specific subject within a School Complex, respective Directors shall make necessary arrangements for the same strictly as per instructions,” Kumar said.
The principal secretary also said that any other extraordinary arrangement to meet the shortage or deficiency of staff shall strictly be made by the Administrative Department after taking inputs from the concerned Directorates.
Stating the calendar for transfer, the School Education Department said that in order to maintain constancy during the academic session, transfers shall be made only at the close of academic session and there shall be no mid-term transfers.
“However, teaching staff can be transferred from one school to another as per the requirement even during the mid-session on cogent reasons including performance of the teacher, school results, enrollment, and requirement of subject specific teacher or any other administrative measures,” reads the communiqué.
It also said that the employees can be posted upon their promotion, revocation of suspension, resumption of duties after training or leave. “They shall be adjusted against vacant posts during the non-transfer period as far as practicable.” (KNO)

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April 25, 2023
In Digital Telangana, an online RTI portal is a far cry

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Hyderabad: The Right to Information (RTI) Act in Telangana seems to be non-existent with no annual reports, no information commissioners and no online portal for filing RTIs. This is concerning as there is no way to demand transparency of government functions in Telangana
Even though there has been a direction from the High Court of Telangana to build an online RTI filing portal, the state government seems to have completely ignored this direction.
Activists and advocates have been approaching the High Court demanding an online RTI portal for years now and the IT Department has been positively replying, they will get the portal ready as early as possible. In May 2022, an RTI by Kareem Ansari of YouRTI.in disclosed the portal is ready and is being tested with few departments, before it is made available to the public. Yet, almost after a year there is no portal for the public to access.

In a state where every process has been digitised from marriage registration to building permissions, why is it that a simple Right to Information request can’t be filed online? The answer probably lies with the economic aspect of maintaining this portal as it is not a revenue generating process for the government and can actually create problems if citizens get access to information that can be used to hold the government accountable.
As a digital society, where the government itself is forcing every form of technology on us to make governance easier under eGovernance initiatives, we haven’t seen technology essentially be used for accountability measures. It is clear when the state forces us to digitise, it is primarily motivated from economic incentives. But these don’t necessarily hold true for something like RTI, Archives or other forms of information services where there is no economic incentive for the state.
In all fairness, the IT department did put some effort into publishing open data by launching a new initiative with an open data portal and a policy accessible at https://data.telangana.gov.in/. Although this is a proactive effort, this hasn’t been extended in practice across departments where we can demand data, algorithms and other digital resources as defined under section 2(f) of the RTI Act. With every form of governance digitised, it should be our right to demand information as already allowed under the RTI Act.
Increased digitization has only created information asymmetry between citizens and the state. While the state has 360 degree profiles of citizens that it is creating and even sharing with police for surveillance, there is an information asymmetry with how much we can know about the state. These barriers are not just artificially created, they are also necessary for the state to not have any opposition to its actions.
The Telangana IT Department has always promoted new technologies in the state to help the IT sector. If you can build something new, the state will become the first customer to help you promote your technology. This is not necessarily true for all forms of technologies out there, but specifically towards technologies that bring revenue.

If you want to build a blockchain solution, the government of Telangana will gladly promote you through some regulatory push like making chit-funds listed on blockchain. But if you want the same with RTIs on a blockchain, then the government will not even think twice to reject the proposal.
So what will it take to get an online portal for Good Governance, eGovernance or whatever brand words the Government wants to use for making an RTI portal available for the public of Telangana? Do we have to send a proposal to the IT secretary that we can build a chatGPT integrated RTI portal or an AI to replace the bureaucracy or mandatory Aadhaar for filing RTIs?
What will it take for the citizens to have a simple governance system that they deserve? The answer is not the benevolence of the IT Secretary, Department or the Minister. Unless people demand this, it will not happen and it is unlikely the state is going to be accountable on its own.
Srinivas Kodali is a researcher with interests in cities, data and the internet.
(This article is shared under Creative Commons Attribution – No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0)
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 24, 2023
Set up online RTI portal within 3 months, SC tells HCs

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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed all high courts to set up RTI websites within three months, adding that online facilities will considerably facilitate the fulfilment of the objects of the Right to Information Act, 2005.
A bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said to help people access information on the apex court, it has already set up a portal for filing RTI applications in November last year.
The bench, also comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala, stressed that online facilities would facilitate the fulfilment of the objects of the RTI Act.
Hearing a plea seeking direction to the Registrars General of all high courts to operationalise online RTI portal, both for the high courts as well as the district courts, the top court said though the Act was enacted in October 2005, after a lapse of 17 years, online web portals are still to be operationalised by some of the high courts.
It was informed that high courts of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha have already set up web portals for the purpose. It also noted that the Karnataka High Court is using the website being set up by the state government.
The top court said it is of the view that such an exercise be carried out by all the high courts in the country no later than within a period of three months from today.
As the district judiciary is under the administrative control of the high courts, the top court asked the Registrars General of high courts to take administrative directions from the Chief Justice.
The bench said high courts will be at liberty to utilise the resources of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for the purpose, which will provide all logistical and technical assistance.

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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 20, 2023
Saudi: AlUla launches entertainment, tourism licenses portal

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Riyadh: The Saudi Arabia’s Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) on Sunday, announced the launch of the tourism and entertainment licensing and permit portal, local media reported.
This came in order to facilitate the provision of services in the AlUla, develop the governorate’s operations and automate procedures.
After Cabinet approval, RCU can issue licenses for travel and tourism agencies, accommodation, tours and facilities management.
The RCU thanked the government for its support to display the culture, art and history of the nation in line with the goals of Saudi Vision 2030.
The RCU affirms its commitment to the highest standards of excellence and international best practices.
It has called on everyone to visit the e-services portal to submit requests for tourism and entertainment permits.
سعياً لتطوير القطاع السياحي والترفيهي في #العلا، أتاحت @RCU_SA عدداً من الخدمات والتراخيص للأفراد والمؤسسات، ويمكن الاستفادة من الخدمات عبر البوابة الإلكترونية الموحدة.
— الهيئة الملكية لمحافظة العلا (@RCU_SA) February 19, 2023
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February 20, 2023
1,23,968 public grievances received on CPGRAMS portal in Jan

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New Delhi: The banking and insurance division of the Department of Financial Services and the Ministry of Labour and Employment received the maximum number of public grievances in January this year.
The Department of Financial Services (banking division) received 17,026 grievances, its insurance division received 6,429 grievances, the Ministry of Labour and Employment received 11,139 grievances, while the Central Board of Direct Taxes (income tax) received 5,524 grievances in January.
In January, 1,23,968 public grievances were received on the CPGRAMS portal, 1,25,922 public grievances cases were redressed and there existed a pendency of 67,283 cases, as on January 31.
The pendency in the Central secretariat has decreased from 69,204 public grievances at the end of December 2022 to 67,283 at the end of January 2023, said a report issued by the Department of Public Grievances.
In January, 15,398 appeals were received and 14,320 appeals were disposed. The Central secretariat had a pendency of 26,306 public grievance appeals at the end of January.
As per the report, 21 ministries and departments have more than 1,000 pending grievances as on January 24. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (7,579) and the Department of Personnel and Training (1,912) have the highest number of grievances pending for more than 30 days.
According to the report, the Department of Financial Services (banking division) has the highest number of public grievance cases under the corruption category at 810.
The average grievance redressal time in all the ministries/departments for the month of January was 19 days.

For Central ministries and departments, 6,017 grievances received the rating of ‘excellent’ and ‘very good’ directly from the citizens in the feedbacks collected by the BSNL call centre from January 1 to 24.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

February 14, 2023
Seed Certification System goes digital in J&K with launch of SATHI portal

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Move will help farmers buy quality, genuine seeds: Atal Dulloo
Srinagar, Feb 14 (GNS): Continuing its efforts to strengthen the farmer welfare programmes and develop agriculture sector across J&K, two State Seed Certification Agencies of Jammu/Kashmir will go digital via Centralized Online Seed Traceability Portal SATHI (Seed Authentication, Traceability & Holistic Inventory).
This was expressed by Additional Chief Secretary (ACS), Agriculture Production Department (APD), Atal Dulloo, during the formal launch of SATHI portal for Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing the gathering on the occasion, Atal Dulloo said that to make Seed Certification more efficient and transparent with provisions for effective monitoring and traceability of seeds, Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, conceived and developed a Centralized Online System ‘SATHI’ for capturing various parameters such as grower details, seed testing details, lot details, sample details, Certification agency, among others of notified seed varieties. He highlighted that this move will help farmers to buy quality and genuine seeds besides help in curbing menace of spurious seed.
The ACS further said that with the help of smart phone, farmers can scan the Quick Response (QR) code on the seed packing and various details about the seed will ﬂash on the screen, which will allow farmers to cross-check whether they are buying good quality seeds or not. He added that the process will not only improve the credibility of seed producers by value addition for seeds in the market but will also help the seed law enforcement authorities to conduct spot assessment of the genuineness of seed and initiate action against offenders.
Atal Dulloo further remarked that with digitization and traceability in the seed industry, the quality of seed will be effectively monitored and help in better earnings for the farmers. He added that this digital Intervention will strengthen seed exports to developed countries also by ensuring conformity with seed quality and improved efficiency.
Pertinent to mention, SATHI is a national portal for automation of the entire life cycle of seed which includes Seed Production, Seed Certification, Seed Traceability and Seed Supply Chain. Under SATHI, Seed Certification system process is designed to maintain and make available to the farming community continuous supply of high quality seeds and plantation material of notified kinds and varieties of crops. It is a quality assurance system whereby seed intended for marketing is subject to quality control and inspection by empowered designated officials.(GNS)

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( With inputs from : thegnskashmir.com )

February 14, 2023