Teaching posts in Greater Chennai Corporation schools vacant due to lack of staff redeployment and lapsed positions

In many cases, teachers challenge redeployment transfer orders as they can lose seniority in the next school. A post becomes lapsed if it is vacant for three or more years and regular deployment and transfer counselling do not happen and a request has to be sent to the government to revive it for hiring. Around 1,200 posts have lapsed in the schools run by the civic body