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The persons placed as Principals should satisfy themselves that they are fully qualified
as per Special Rules before relieving to take charge as Principal. If they are not fully qualified,
the matter should be reported to the Director Higher Secondary Education forthwith. The
Principals/Principals in charge who are to relieve the newly placed Principals must verify
the service records and qualifying certificates and satisfy themselves that the incumbents
are fully qualified for placement as Principals, before relieving them.
(4)The persons placed as Principals should join duty within 15 days from the date of
receipt of this order and submit joining reports and CTCs to the Director of Higher Secondary
Education immediately. Copies of the CTCs and joining reports should be forwarded to the
respective Regional Deputy Directors of Higher Secondary Education.
(5)Those who are not willing to accept the placement should invariably relinquish the
placement as per rules within the period of joining time admissible. If any of the persons placed
remain in the present station without relinquishing the placement, strict disciplinary action shall
be taken for disobedience of order. Such persons shall lose his/her opportunity and next eligible
hands will be placed as Principals as per rules.
(6) Those who are placed as Principals as per this order should pass the Account Test
for Executive Officers (Kerala) or Account Test (Lower), if they have not already passed the
test. This test qualification should be attained within a continuous period of two years of
service from the date of taking charge as Principal.
(7) Those who are on LWA subject to the terms and conditions laid down in appendix
XII A, XII B and XII C of Part I KSR are not eligible for placement as per this order.
(8) Those placed as Principals, as ordered above will continue to teach as HSSTs in
their subjects but with a reduction of teaching periods to a maximum of 4 periods/week i.e.,
maximum work load is limited to 21 periods/week. The periods thus reduced, if any, will be
distributed among the other HSSTs in the concerned subject. At the time of joining duty in the
newly placed school, the Principal should ensure that there is sufficient workload to teach. If it
is found that the placed Principal has no sufficient workload (that is more than 14 periods per
week) as prescribed above, such Principals should not take charge as Principal, instead, should
report before the Director Higher Secondary Education for further placement.
But in the case of Principals who have to teach Part II languages he/she is directed to
take charge, first, irrespective of teaching periods available, if the same language is offered in
that school. In such cases, after assuming charge as Principals, the matter should be brought to
the notice of the Director Higher Secondary Education in writing.
(9) The teachers who become excess due to the placement of Principals will be shifted
in due course.
(10) Persons placed as Principals as per Administrative Order of the Director HSE
alone are eligible to claim salaries under the Budget Head of the DHSE.
(11) For reckoning seniority of the Principals for future service purposes, the seniority
shall be reckoned as per rules and also subject to the decision on individual cases of
objections/O.P’s and also subject to the order of the Honourable Courts and Government, if any
issued later. The duties and powers of the Principals are mentioned in G.O.(MS)
No.338/2003/Gl.Edn dated 16-12-2003 and subsequent G.O.(MS) No.134/2004/G.Edn dated
14-05-2004.