Education Department to conduct online transfer drive for Assistant Professors

The Department of Higher Education has released the tentative schedule for the Online Transfer Drive for Assistant Professors of 20 subjects posted at government colleges across the state.

Separate notices have been issued for the teaching cadres of chemistry, Hindi, economics, political science, geography, sociology, history, botany, maths, Sanskrit, home science, defence studies, physical education, English, physics, psychology, zoology, commerce, Punjabi, computer science in this respect. Notably, a tentative schedule for a transfer drive for college principals was also released some days ago.

As per the schedule, entire processes—beginning from data updating to final transfer orders—will be completed in a structured timeline between November 2025 and March 2026. Each subject-specific drive begins with the updating of employee data by checkers, followed by publication of score and tenure details.

Employees will then be given the opportunity to validate their data or raise objections. Nodal officers have been assigned the responsibility to resolve objections within specified periods, after which the employees may again raise objections, if needed. The final score along with lists of voluntary, deemed, notional and ineligible employees will be published before the consent period begins.

Faculty members opting for voluntary participation in the drive will be able to give their consent within the defined time window. The schedule further outlines the steps for preliminary rationalisation of posts and publication of tentative vacancy lists. The final rationalisation process will determine the availability of final vacant posts for transfer, list of employees under deemed/voluntary/ notional/ surplus category.

Subsequently, the employees will be allowed to submit their preferences for posting. The nodal officer will then verify that all employees have been allotted units. Those will be given the last option to fill choices against remaining available posts, who have not been allocated any unit (s) of their preferred choices based on their merit or who have not filled any choice.

The final transfer orders for all subjects will be generated on February 5, 2026, followed by completion of the joining and relieving process by February 15, 2026.

The grievance redressal window will remain open from February 6 to March 2, 2026, allowing the employees to submit complaints to the competent authority. Decisions on these grievances will be taken between March 3 and March 17, 2026.

The schedule notices have been issued by the Additional Chief Secretary of the Higher Education Department and circulated to all district higher education officers and principals of all government colleges across the state.