The statewide agitation by Odisha’s main school lecturers entered its third consecutive day on Sunday, as thousands of contractual lecturers persisted their round-the-clock sit down-in at Decrease PMG in Bhubaneswar.
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Odisha Significant Lecturers’ drag enters day 3 in Bhubaneswar Checklist: (File)
The statewide agitation by Odisha’s main school lecturers entered its third consecutive day on Sunday, as thousands of contractual lecturers persisted their round-the-clock sit down-in at Decrease PMG in Bhubaneswar. The protesters are traumatic regularisation of service and revision of their wage construction in step with the Rs 4,200 grade pay. Despite excessive iciness prerequisites, lecturers left their lecture rooms and converged in the converse capital as fragment of the 2d portion of their ongoing agitation.
Lecturers alleged that even if their requires accept as true with been raised for years and 2 committees accept as true with reviewed the matter, no concrete action has been taken. Many remained on the negate living all the contrivance through Saturday night, braving the cool. Visuals from the venue confirmed lecturers drowsing on tarpaulin sheets and the exercise of them as makeshift covers in opposition to biting temperatures and dense fog.
One protesting trainer said their decision remained unwavering despite the hardships.
“The weather becomes extremely complex at night with the cool and fog, however over one lakh main lecturers accept as true with gathered here to fight for our rights. Now we accept as true with got raised these requires for rather a lot of years, yet none of our considerations accept as true with been addressed. We settle on the Rs 4,200 grade pay treasure utterly different states. Till our requires are fulfilled, we will give you the chance to proceed our negate,” he said.
One other trainer pointed to anomalies in the pay construction following adjustments in qualification requirements.
“As per ORSP, our qualification turned into upgraded from matriculation to Plus Two. Accordingly, our grade pay must accept as true with been revised from 2,200 to 4,200. Till this revision is implemented and 6 notional increments are granted, we will now not name off our agitation,” the teacher said.
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Faculty and Mass Education Minister Nityananda Gond appealed to the lecturers to attain to their tasks, putting forward that the BJP government has taken their requires significantly and is currently inspecting them.
