Bengaluru, Mar 24 (PTI) The Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Tuesday passed a Bill aimed at prioritising the filling of “critical posts”, and to prevent the transfer of government teachers to non-teaching posts.
The Bill titled the Karnataka State Civil Services (Regulation of Transfer of Teachers) (Amendment), was piloted by Minister for School Education and Literacy Madhu Bangarappa.
According to the Bill, critical posts means and includes all teaching posts, including lecturers in Government Pre-University Colleges.
It further classifies critical posts into three categories: Category 1: Karnataka Public Schools, Adarsha Vidyalaya, PM SHRI schools other than headmaster or vice principal; Category 2: All other schools and Government Pre-University Colleges having an enrolment exceeding 250 students or as per enrolment threshold notified by the government from time to time other than head master or vice principal; and Category 3: Headmaster or vice principal of High School or principal in Government Pre-University Colleges under Category 1 and 2.
The Bill also makes provision to bar transfer of the incumbents of teaching posts to the non-teaching posts in the School Education and Literacy Department and in any other posts in the State Civil Services or Boards or Corporations.
Piloting the Bill for the consideration of the House, Bangarappa said that the Bill is to ensure that all transfers shall first be to fill critical posts and when completed, other posts can be filled.
“In the budget we had mentioned about critical posts, which means whether in Karnataka Public Schools, Adarsha Vidyalayas, and PM SHRI schools, where there are more admissions more than 250, they will be considered as critical, and during transfer or appointment of teachers to those schools will be considered as main and later others will be considered,” he said.
Further noting that a good number of good and trained teachers who opt for District Institute of Education and Training (DIET) postings, stay there for long and don’t come to teaching, the minister citing shortage of teachers, said, “As once they go to DIET, they cannot stay there for more than three years and will have to come back to teaching.” He said the Bill provides priority for requesting transfers to pregnant teachers and female teachers whose children are aged less than five years, it also mandates a minimum service of 10 years for teachers in the backward Kalyana Karnataka region before they seek a transfer out of the region.
During the discussion on the Bill, MLAs from various parties urged the minister to complete teacher transfers before the start of the academic year and to increase recruitment. They also asked him to ensure the availability of qualified teachers for English-medium education.
The Assembly also passed the Karnataka Government Educational Institution’s Lands (Protection and Regularisation) Bill, 2026, that will provide for deemed vesting of lands where a government educational institution has functioned continuously and without objection for not less than 12 years.
The Bill also provides for recognising long-standing public use of lands given without formal documentation for educational purposes. It also empowers the state to issue Vesting Certificates, maintain an official land register alongside establish a grievance redressal and appellate mechanism.
Noting that government educational institutions have been established and functioning on lands donated by individuals, families or community bodies, often without formal documentation or registered transfer, as per the Bill, despite decades of undisputed public use, recent claims by successors or legal heirs, based on technical gaps in documentation, have led to litigation which has stalled construction and uncertainty over land status.
It said, existing legal frameworks do not adequately address long-standing, open and settled use of land for government educational institutions. This has left thousands of institutions vulnerable to disruption and placed state infrastructure and public investments at legal risk. PTI KSU KH
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