COIMBATORE: Technical staff of government engineering colleges have demanded transfer counselling for them, at least this year, since it has not been held for the past two years. They sent a petition in this regard to the Commissioner, Directorate of Technical Education (DOTE).
As per the norm, the DOTE should conduct the transfer counselling for the technical staff, teaching staff, and clerical staff working at the 11 government engineering colleges in the state every year, stated a technical staff member of Government College of Technology (GCT) in Coimbatore, who did not wish to be named.
He said that while DOTE has not conducted transfer counselling for technical staff members working in the various departments of the colleges, it properly conducts transfer counselling for the teaching and clerical staff every year.
He alleged that officers of DOTE do not provide the reason for not conducting the counselling for them, and urged that counselling be conducted this year.
R Karthikeyan, president of the Tamil Nadu Engineering College Technical Staff Association, told TNIE that around 450 staff members are working in government engineering colleges in the state.
"As the counselling has not been conducted for the last two years, technical staff have not been able to move to colleges located in their native places or neighbouring districts. At least 100 technical staffs have been affected," he said.
DOTE Commissioner J Innocent Divya told TNIE that she would take steps to conduct counselling.