The Punjab school education department has extended the date for verification of data of teachers applying online for transfer by one more day.
The DDOs have now been given time till March 16 to verify the data.
This decision of extension has been taken by the department in view of the requests put forward by the DDOs at the help desk facing technical issues.
It is to be mentioned that while applying for transfer online, the teachers uploads a large number of records including service record, results and among other documents, which then has to be duly verified.
As per the instructions of the department, the work of data verification by DDOs was to be completed by March 15. However, due to the commencement of home examinations of non-board classes of schools on March 15, DDOs remained busy in conducting these examinations, therefore, the data verification date has been extended till March 16.