The following norms shall be followed in the fixation of the strength of the staff based on the strength of the pupils studying in the standards / sections for which grant has been paid by the Government prior to the Academic Year 1991-1992 and the consequential deployment of the surplus staff,- A. Staff fixation.- (1)The strength of the staff of every aided private school shall be fixed based on the strength of the pupils as on the 1stday of August of every academic year.
(2) The requirement of each aided private school shall be assessed separately by treating each school as a ‘unit’ for the purpose of fixing the strength of the staff.
(3) The posts sanctioned to an aided private school prior to the academic year 1991 – 1992 and the strength of the staff fixed based on the strength of the pupils as on the 1st day of August of the academic year in which the fixation is done, whichever is less shall be the norms for fixing the strength of the staff of that academic year.
14 TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY B. Deployment of surplus staff,-(1) The District Educational Officer concerned in respect of Primary and Middle schools, the Chief Educational Officer concerned in respect of High and Higher Secondary schools and the Joint Director concerned in respect of Anglo-Indian schools shall fix the strength of the staff based on the strength of the pupils updated in the Educational Management Information System (EMIS) as on the 1stday of August of every academic year and shall complete the assessment process on or before the 12th day of August of that academic year.
(2) The staff fixation statement along with the list of surplus staff identified shall be forwarded to the Secretary of the school committee or the management of the school concerned on or before the 15thday of August of that academic year.
Explanation.- For the purpose of this sub-rule,-
(i) the surplus staff so identified shall be the junior most staff in that school;
(ii) the junior most staff so deployed will retain his seniority in the school from which he has been deployed;
(iii) the school to which the junior most staff has been deployed shall pay the salary to such deployed staff and shall have the right to take disciplinary action against such staff.
(3) The Secretary of the school committee or the management of the school, as the case may be, shall explore the possibility of accommodating the surplus staff against any eligible vacant post in any other aided school under the same educational agency and within the Revenue District and send the report to the concerned District Educational Officer in respect of Primary and Middle schools, the Joint Director concerned in respect of Anglo-Indian schools and the Chief Educational Officer concerned in respect of High and Higher Secondary Schools by the 22ndday of August of that academic year. The concerned District Educational Officer or the Joint Director or the Chief Educational Officer, as the case may be, shall thereafter issue deployment orders to the Secretary of the school committee or the management of the concerned school from and to which the surplus staff shall be deployed, for accommodating those surplus staff within the Revenue District on or before the 31stday of August of that academic year.
(4) If surplus posts with or without staff are still available after the deployment is made by the concerned Officer, the list of those surplus staff shall be forwarded to the Director concerned on or before the 10thday of September of that academic year.
(5) On receipt of the list of surplus posts with and without staff,-
(a) the Director concerned shall resume the surplus posts without staff to the common pool and communicate the same to the Secretary of the school committee or the management of the school, the concerned District Educational Officer, the Chief Educational Officer and the Joint Director, as the case may be;
(b) in respect of surplus posts with staff, the Director concerned shall accommodate the identified surplus staff against the eligible vacancy in another aided school coming under the same educational agency in the adjacent Revenue District;
(c) if no such vacancy is available in the adjacent Revenue District, such staff shall be given an opportunity of exercising his option for deployment either,-
(i) to the eligible vacancy in other aided school under the same educational agency but in far away district; or
(ii) to the eligible vacancy in other aided school under different educational agency but in the nearby district;
(d) if there is any conflict in the selection of the school specified in clause (c) above, the senior surplus staff shall be given preference.
(6) The above process shall be done by conducting counselling by the concerned Director or the Chief Educational Officer, the District Educational Officer, and the Joint Director, as the case may be, on or before the 30thday of September of that academic year.
(7) Even after all these processes, if surplus staff are still available to be deployed or where such deployment is felt difficult, such surplus staff available with the Director concerned shall be sent on deputation to some other nearby Panchayat Union school by the District Educational Officer concerned or to the Government High / Higher Secondary School by the Chief Educational Officer concerned or to the Anglo-Indian School by the Joint Director concerned, till a vacancy arises in any other aided school for the purpose of deployment.
(8) The educational agency of an aided private school shall not make any new appointment in the eligible vacancy available in the school till the deployment of all other surplus staff available in other aided private schools coming under the same corporate management is exhausted based on the report given by the concerned District Educational Officer, the Chief Educational Officer and the Joint Director, as the case may be to this effect.
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(9) The staff who is found to be surplus in an aided private school should join the school to which he has been deployed within a period of fifteen days from the date of receipt of the deployment order failing which, disciplinary action will be initiated against the staff concerned by the school from which the surplus staff has been deployed and no further grant-in-aid will be sanctioned to that particular post held by such surplus staff.
(10) The staff who has been issued with deployment order has no vested right to choose a particular place since he should be prepared to work anywhere in any aided private school as ordered.
(11) Where the Secretary of the school committee or the management of the school, as the case may be, refuses to relieve the deployed staff, the grant – in - aid extended to that particular post which has been declared surplus shall be stopped immediately forthwith.
(12) Where the Secretary of the school committee or the management of the school, as the case may be, to which such surplus staff has been deployed refuses to accommodate the deployed staff, the Secretary of the school committee or the management of the school, as the case may be, shall not fill up the vacant post without the approval of the competent authority. In such case, if the deployment has been made by the District Educational Officer concerned in respect of Primary and Middle schools, the fact shall be intimated to the Director of Elementary Education who shall take action to send such deployed staff on deputation to some other nearby Panchayat Union school till a vacancy arises in any other aided school for the purpose of deployment as prescribed in sub-rule(7) above. If the deployment has been made by District Educational Officer concerned in respect of High and Higher Secondary schools, the fact shall be intimated to the Chief Educational Officer concerned and the Chief Educational Officer shall intimate the same to the Director of School Education who shall take action to send such deployed staff on deputation to some other nearby Government school till a vacancy arises in any other aided school for the purpose of deployment as prescribed in sub-rule(7) above. If the deployment has been made by the Joint Director concerned, in respect of Anglo-Indian schools the fact shall be intimated to the concerned Director who shall take action to send such deployed staff on deputation to some other nearby Government school till a vacancy arises in any other Anglo-Indian school for the purpose of deployment has prescribed in sub-rule
(7) above.
(13) If any vacancy arises in the aided school from which the surplus staff has been deployed consequent on increase in the strength of the pupils in that school in the next academic year, the surplus staff who has been deployed from that school earlier shall be re-transferred to that school on obtaining his willingness.