In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) "appointment" means appointment by direct recruitment, by absorption or by promotion;
(b) "appointing authority" means the authority competent to make appointment to the post of a teacher;
(c) "competent authority" means the authority competent to make orders of transfer of a teacher;
(d) "Pre-University college" means Pre-University colleges belonging to the State Government;
(e) "rural area" means the areas of,-
(i) Zone-B consisting of the areas upto such distance away from the limits of Zone-A of urban area; and
(ii) Zone -C consisting of the areas lying beyond the limits of Zone- B;
as may be notified by the State Government from time to time;
(f) "school" means Primary or the High School belonging to the State Government as the case may be;
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(a) "schedule" means the schedule appended to this Ordinance;
(b) "teacher" means a person appointed to a category of posts of a teacher, in a Primary School or a High School and includes a lecturer in a Pre-University college, belonging to the State Civil Services and such other posts as specified in the Schedule;
(c) "transfer" means posting of a teacher to a post in a place of working, including posting of a teacher from one place of working to a post in another place of working and includes transfer within or outside the unit of seniority in the same cadre;
(d) "unit of seniority" means the jurisdiction of the appointing authority competent to make appointment to the post of teacher;
(e) "urban area" means any areas within the limits of a taluk or district head quarters and the limits of a City Corporation, City Municipal Council, Town Municipal Council or a Town Panchayat and upto such distance away from the limits of above areas notified as Zone-A area by the State Government from time to time.