Thursday 9 November 2017

Teachers hold mass rally despite Govt warning

Even though the State Government has warned the teachers not to leave schools without submitting applications, over 50,000 teachers under the banner of the Odisha Primary Teachers’ Association (OPTA) (Under New Pension Scheme) and the Odisha Sikshya Sahayak Association (OSSA) gathered here and staged a demonstration demanding fulfilment of their three-point charter of demands here on Wednesday.

It might be mentioned here that the teacher bodies had earlier submitted memorandum many times to the fitment committee to remove inequalities in salaried paid as per the Sixth Pay Commission.
But the fitment committee didn’t look into such demands and implemented the Seventh Pay Commission in a partial way for which inequalities in the Sixth Pay Commission continued in the Seventh Pay Commission.

“Primary teachers in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Delhi, Punjab and other states are getting Pay of Rs 9,300 and Grade Pay 4,200 as per Sixth Pay Commission but primary teachers in Odisha are still getting Pay of Rs 5,200 and Grade Pay of Rs 2,200 which violates the Right to Education Act norms.

The State Government had implemented the Right to Education Act in April 2010 and as per the Act the minimum eligibility of the primary teacher should be Plus Two and CT and salary will be paid as per the post. But the Government has not yet upgraded the minimum eligibility from matriculation and CT to Plus Two and CT, Mohanty added.

He said teachers fulfilling criteria of Plus Two and CT are getting salary meant for Matriculation and CT holders.

The other demands include regularisation of Siksha Sahayaks who have completed six years in job and abolishment of the post (Sikshya Sahayak posts and naming them tas junior teachers.
The teacher bodies have threatened they would continue stir for indefinite period until their demands are not fulfiled.

Among others, OPTA general secretary Khagendra Nath Pal, OSSA president Malay Kumar Jena, general secretary Arjun Kumar Sethi, Bikram Rath, Purnachandra Acharya, Manoj Mohanty, Mahendra Mishra, Rajlaxmi Mahapatra, Aswini Rout, Ananta Parida, Pramod Kumar Bhanja and Pabitra Mohan Jena were present.

Source : http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/teachers-hold-mass-rally-despite-govt-warning.html

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