Tag: Lower Pmg

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Teachers’ Day celebrated even as block grant teachers observe 'black day’

Bhubaneswar: Schools across the state wore a festive look as students teamed up to host a number of activities and make their teachers feel special on occasion of Teacher’s Day even as a section of block grant teachers decided to observe the day as ‘Black Day’. At some schools, teachers were offered prayers with flowers […]

  • Friday, 30 July 2021
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Kudumi Sena members launch protest demanding ST status

Bhubaneswar: Demanding scheduled tribe status for their community, hundreds of Kudumi Sena members staged protest in Bhubaneswar today. The agitating members took out a rally from Master Canteen Chhak to Lower PMG urging the State government to forward their request to the Centre. While trying to gherao Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s residence, the protesters clashed […]

  • Thursday, 29 July 2021
Revenue clerks stage mass agitation in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: Thousands of clerks under the banner of Odisha Rajaswa Amala Sangha (ORAS) staged a mass demonstration in the Capital city on Friday protesting the Naveen Patnaik-led government’s apathy towards their longstanding 4-point charter of demands. The clerical staff of Odisha Revenue department gathered at the Lower PMG square here demanding fulfilment of various demands […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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Demand for Pay Parity: Police disperse agitating home guards

Bhubaneswar: The home guards staging dharna at the Lower PMG square here demanding fulfilment of their seven-point charter of demands, including restructuring of pay scale according to 7th Pay Commission, were forcefully dispersed by the police today, informed President of Rajya Gruharakhi Mahasangha (Odisha Home Guards Association) Upendra Mohapatra. The home guards were holding a […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
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ICT coordinators’ agitation enters 8th day

Bhubaneswar: The computer training coordinators of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), through their association, have urged the government to regularize their jobs and fulfill a charter of demands. The coordinators, associated with various schools of the state, have been sitting on dharna at the Lower PMG in Bhubaneswar since eight days. Despite the association’s repeated […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
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Police lathicharge agitating Sikshya Sahayak aspirants in Bhubaneswar

Bhubaneswar: Police had to resort to lathicharge to disperse protesting job aspirants agitating under the banner of Sikshya Sahayak Ashayi Sangha Odisha at Lower PMG in Bhubaneswar on Monday. More than 25,000 unemployed BEd passouts and certificate in teaching (CT) holders were staging dharna at the Lower PMG demanding employment as Sikshya Sahayaks. The situation […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
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Farmers hit streets protesting govt apathy

Bhubaneswar: Hundreds of farmers from various districts across the state staged a rally at the Lower PMG here today taking up various issues faced by them. Holding banners and shouting slogans, the farmers under the aegis of Odisha Krushak Sangathan Samanaya Samiti assembled at Lower PMG and staged ‘Krushak Adhikar Chetabani Samavesh’. Akhil Bharatiya Kisan […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
Anganwadi workers on indefinite stir for salary hike  

Bhubaneswar: Hundreds of Anganwadi workers are sitting on an indefinite dharna at Lower PMG since September 14 pressing for fulfillment of their various demands, including salary hike. After staging demonstration in front of the state Assembly on September 12, the activists have been staging the stir at Lower PMG under the banner of the All […]

  • Friday, 23 July 2021
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Agitating teachers scuffle with police

Bhubaneswar: Teachers under the banner of School Teachers Federation of Odisha (STFO) had a scuffle with the police at Lower PMG Square here today. Reports said the Federation protesting the apathy of the state government in not fulfilling its demands went in a rally in the city to gherao the State Assembly and converged at […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
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Odisha govt neglecting teachers: Dharmendra Pradhan

Bhubaneswar: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today criticized the Odisha government for neglecting the demands of teachers who have been staging demonstration for the past 23 days in Bhubaneswar. Pradhan, who met the agitating teachers at Lower PMG square in Bhubaneswar today, alleged that the Odisha government has money to strengthen its own vote bank but […]

  • Tuesday, 22 June 2021
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Odisha Teacher Dies During Protest Over OTET Exam

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a teacher died during a protest at Lower PMG in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Niranjan Barik, who hails from Mayurbhanj district. According to reports, Barik was staging a dharna along with other teachers demanding re-evaluation of Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET), the results of which […]

  • Thursday, 22 April 2021
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