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Repeal and Savings 2 Statement of Objects and Reasons I Act 29 of 2007.- It is considered necessary to regulate transfer of teachers in Government Primary Schools and Secondary Schools including lecturers in Government Pre-University Colleges in order to ensure availability of teachers in rural areas by classifying rural areas depending on the distance from the limits of city corporation, city municipal council, town municipal council, town panchayat, district headquarters or taluk headquarters as Zone-A, Zone-B and Zone-C so as,- (1) to transfer a teacher to a rural area on his initial appointment and also to transfer a teacher to a rural area on his immediate next transfer who has not worked before the commencement of this Act in any rural area; (2) not to transfer any teacher out side the rural area who is appointed in a rural area before the completion of five years from the date of his appointment; (3) to prohibit transfer of a teacher from one unit of seniority in which he is appointed to another unit of seniority; and for other matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Hence the Bill. (L.A.Bill No. 2 of 2007) (Entry 41 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.) II Amending Act 23 of 2015.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka State Civil Services (Regulation of transfer of teachers) Act, 2007 to,- (i) enhance the limit of transfers from 5% to 8% in public interest; and (ii) relax the prohibition of transfer of teachers from one unit of seniority to another unit of seniority in cases of husband and wife and mutual transfers. Hence, the Bill. [L.A. Bill No. 11 of 2015, File No. Samvyashae 11 Shasana 2015] [entry 41 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] III Amending Act 32 of 2015.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka State Civil Services (Regulation of transfer of teachers) Act, 2007,- 3 (i) to provide opportunity to transfer a teachers appointed after 04.05.2005, outside unit of seniority once in service (ii) to provide transfer opportunity to the teachers to the place where his spouse is working in an aided educational institution outside the unit of seniority. Hence, the Bill. [L.A. Bill No. 32 of 2015, File No. Samvyashae 41 Shasana 2015] [entry 41 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.] IV Amending Act 23 of 2017.- It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka State Civil Services (Regulation of transfer of teachers) Act, 2007 to,- (1) streamline the process of transfer and posting of teachers, by providing options and flexibility to teachers and to seek postings of their preference; (2) ensure filling of vacancies in rural areas and those under centrally sponsored scheme on priority; and (3) certain consequential amendments are also proposed. Hence, the Bill. [L.A. Bill No. 17 of 2017, File No. Samvyashae 22 Shasana 2017] [entry 41 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India] 4 KARNATAKA ACT NO. 29 OF 2007 (First Published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the First day of September, 2007) THE KARNATAKA STATE CIVIL SERVICES (REGULATION OF TRANSFER OF TEACHERS) ACT, 2007 (Received the assent of the Governor on the thirty first day of August, 2007) (As Amended by Act No.23 of 2015 ,32 of 2015 and 23 of 2017) An Act to provide for regulation of transfer of teachers so as to ensure the availability of teachers in Government schools and Pre- University colleges in rural areas. Whereas it is expedient to provide for regulation of transfer of teachers so as to ensure the availability of teachers in government schools and pre-university colleges in rural areas and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto; Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the fifty-eighth year of the Republic of India, as follows:-