Tag: Teacher Agitation

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Agitating Odisha teachers celebrate Ganesh Puja on streets

Bhubaneswar: After the high level meeting with state government ended inconclusively, the block grant teachers have vowed to continue their agitation and celebrated Ganesh Puja on the streets today. Akin to last year, the teachers were seen celebrating the festival at their protest site which reverberated with the sounds of conches and recitation of prayers […]

  • Friday, 30 July 2021
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Agitating Odisha teachers threaten to take out ‘padyatra’ in all panchayats

Bhubaneswar: The agitating teachers have vowed to spread their voices from Lower PMG in Bhubaneswar to all the 314 blocks of Odisha. The protesting teachers have now threatened to intensify their stir by taking out ‘padyatra’ in all the panchayats. “If the government still remains callous to our demands, we will take out ‘padyatra’ in […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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It’s important to streamline education system: Jay Panda

Bhubaneswar: Equal pay for Equal work. If two persons with similar educational qualification, experience are doing similar work, they should have equal financial benefit. This is being complied to in other states while Odisha has lagged. It is important to set the system in a disciplined way so that streamlining makes things easier. This was […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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Odisha orders suspension of 'absentee' teachers in Plus-II paper evaluation

Bhubaneswar: Amid protests and boycott of evaluation of Plus-II answer sheets by teachers, Odisha government today ordered immediate suspension of ‘non-reporting and absentee’ examiners appointed for evaluation duty. The Directorate of Higher Education, in a directive to the governing authorities of all the non-government aided colleges in the State, stated that a teacher assigned with […]

  • Monday, 26 July 2021
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No more Sikhya Sahayaks; Now they are Junior teachers

Bhubaneswar: In a major development, the state government has finally abolished the post of Sikhya Sahayak and decided to appoint them as Junior teachers. Odisha School & Mass Education Minister Badrinarayan Patra after holding discussions with the agitating teachers informed that the Sikhya Sahayak post will be abolished and the teachers will be posted as […]

  • Saturday, 24 July 2021
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Block grant teachers to agitate in panchayat level from today

Bhubaneswar: Teachers under the aegis of Odisha School and College Teachers’ and Employees United Forum will take out rallies in all the panchayats across the State from today to intensify their ongoing agitation over fulfilment of various demands. As per sources, thousands of teachers, intellectuals and common people would take part in the agitation and […]

  • Wednesday, 23 June 2021
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Odisha govt has slipped into coma: Opposition

Bhubaneswar: Amid ongoing agitation of teachers, clerks, lawyers and Fire Services personnel, streets of Odisha are teeming with protests allowing the Opposition parties train their guns alleging that the BJD-led government has slipped into coma. Agitation by thousands of teachers, who have been braving rain and sun seeking fulfilment of their long-standing demands, has affected […]

  • Friday, 18 June 2021
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Discussions with agitating teachers fail; protests to continue

Bhubaneswar: Teachers agitating for the past 35 days threatened to continue their strike after a meeting with the State Government ended inconclusively today. According to sources, an inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Finance Minister Sashi Bhusan Behera along with ministers and secretaries of School and Mass Education and Higher Education departments and the members of Odisha […]

  • Friday, 18 June 2021
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Agitating Odisha teachers threaten to intensify stir

Bhubaneswar: Alleging callousness of the State government towards their demand for revisions in the newly implemented grant-in-aid system, teachers from across the State who have been agitating in Bhubaneswar have threatened to intensify their stir from tomorrow. Hundreds of teachers under the aegis of Odisha School College Teachers and Employees’ United Forum have been staging […]

  • Friday, 18 June 2021
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