Nagaland: School teachers can now apply for transfers online

DoSE’s Teacher Transfer Portal goes live

Dimapur, October 3 (MExN): Offline transfer applications for teachers in Nagaland may soon be a thing of the past with the State Department of School Education (DoSE) introducing an online portal for the same.

On Saturday, Director of School Education, Shanavas C notified that DoSE’s Teacher Transfer Portal https://dosenl.in has been activated. It will be live from October 3 till October 31, he added.

The portal was launched earlier on September 23, through a notification from the department and will facilitate the processing of transfer requests of all categories of teachers except Post Graduate Teachers (PGTs).

1901 teacher vacancies
As per data provided on the website, the total teacher vacancy (tentative) in the government schools across the State is 1901. ‘Tentative Vacancy Positions’ available for Teacher’s Transfer is given under ‘Downloads’ section in the website. 

The details in the department’s website showed vacant positions for various subject teachers as follows: 196 GT Maths, 187 GT Science, 248 GT English, 3 General subject teachers, 831 Primary Teachers, 87 GHT and 349 UGHT respectively.

Teachers may submit applications for other schools as well. However, consideration of their request is subjected to feasibility factors, the department notified in its website.

No more offline transfer applications
With the launch and activation of the portal, offline applications for transfers of teachers in Nagaland will no longer be accepted.

“Henceforth no offline application will be accepted for any kind of teacher transfer with effect from the date of issue of this notification,” the Principal Director had notified on September 23.

Teachers who wish to apply for transfers may login into the portal using their registered mobile number and submit applications along with uploading a scanned copy of duly filled NOC (Sample NOC format available at the portal).

Heads of all Government Schools and all categories of Government School Teachers had been directed to download the Department of School Education Nagaland Teacher's app (Android version) from Google Play Store and install in their mobile phones with immediate effect. Directives/ messages received through the app should be strictly complied with, the notification added.