Bhubaneswar: In a major move to address long-pending demands of teaching and non-teaching staff, the Odisha government on Friday approved 15 recommendations of the Ashok Tripathy Committee.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi after a thorough review of the panel’s suggestions concerning institutions and employees under the School and Mass Education and Higher Education department.
As per the decisions, 194 high schools that were excluded from the block grant scheme in 2013 will now be brought under the grant-in-aid fold. The monthly honorarium of part-time art, music and physical education teachers in government schools has been enhanced from Rs 10,000 to Rs 16,000.
The government has also decided to clear arrears of Trained Graduate Teachers and PETs of government secondary schools who completed six years and were regularised in 2022.
Among other major decisions are regular promotion of primary school teachers and regularisation of Sikshya Sahayaks who were engaged between 2016 and 2018.
The meeting also decided to appoint regular teachers in Prathama and Madhyama Sanskrit Tols and to place teachers in fully-aided Madhyama Sanskrit Tols. Classical teachers working in government schools will be included in the TGT eligibility list.
Vocational instructors will now receive salary as per the regular pay structure, while Odisha Junior Teachers (Schematic) will be given a chance to enhance their educational qualifications.
Several decisions pertain to Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas. The government will complete all pending residential hostels and make them functional, besides ensuring timely payment of salaries to OAV staff.
Children of OAV employees will be allowed to take admission in these schools. The past service of TGTs appointed in OAVs will be taken into account with pay protection.
That apart, AI and robotics labs will also be set up in OAVs. The demand for pension for block grant employees was also taken up at the meeting. Since the issue is sub-judice in the Orissa High Court, the government said it will take appropriate steps after the court’s order.
