Mysuru:  Even as the Government is making efforts to make teacher transfers a smooth affair, confusions in the transfer guidelines have continued to bother the teaching fraternity. The confusions in the Teacher Dissemination Software (TDS) continue to haunt the Primary and Secondary Education Department failing to clear the confusions.

The problem has become all the more compounded as the split in the Teachers Association is wide open, with teachers from rural and urban areas forming separate Associations.

The Education Department in order to maintain balance in transfer of teachers from urban areas to rural and vice-versa, categorised the teachers under 3 zones — A, B, and C. But still confusions reign, even as the two Teacher Associations are vying with each other on getting the teacher of their choice at favourable places.

Teachers from urban areas, who are categorised under compulsory transfers, have been using all their influence and tactics to prevent themselves from getting transferred to rural schools at far off places. Disappointed over the continued efforts of teachers in urban areas to stay put at the schools they are serving, teachers from rural areas, awaiting posting in urban areas, are a disgruntled lot as they are reportedly upset over the attitude of teachers in urban areas.

Even as the Education Department has provided an opportunity for teacher husband-wife, serving in different districts, to get transferred to their native district, this too has run into trouble because of the rampant misuse of guidelines set for the purpose, it is learnt.