Odisha Government Announces 15 Major Decisions to Strengthen Education System and Ensure Welfare of Teachers and Employees

The State Government is always committed to strengthening the state's education system and ensuring the welfare of teachers, lecturers and employees.

Considering the recommendations of the Ashok Tripathy Committee, constituted to examine the demands raised by various teachers' and employees' associations, Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi, at a high-level meeting today, decided to implement the following 15 important recommendations:

✅ Bringing 194 high schools under the grant-in-aid system that were deprived of benefits under the 2013 Government Block Grant scheme.

✅ Increasing the monthly remuneration of part-time Art, Music and Sports Teachers working in government schools from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 16,000.

✅ Payment of arrears of salary to TGT and PET teachers of government secondary schools who completed six years of service and were regularised in 2022.

✅ Ensuring regular promotions for primary school teachers.

✅ Regularisation of Sikhya Sahayaks appointed between 2016 and 2018.

✅ Recruitment of regular teachers in Prathama and Madhyama Sanskrit Tols.

✅ Including Classical Teachers working in government schools in the Trained Graduate (TG) Teacher eligibility list.

✅ Deployment of teachers in fully aided Madhyama Sanskrit Tols.

✅ Providing regular salaries to vocational trainers.

✅ Providing Odisha Junior Teachers (Schematic) with opportunities to acquire higher qualifications.

✅ Completion and operationalisation of all residential hostels in Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas.

✅ Ensuring regular salary payments to all employees working in Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas.

✅ Making arrangements for the children of Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya employees to study in Adarsha Vidyalayas.

✅ Protection of past service and pay fixation of TGT teachers appointed in Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas, by taking their previous service into account.

✅ Establishment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics laboratories in Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas.

Additionally, regarding the pension demand of Block Grant employees, the matter is currently pending before the Hon'ble High Court. Appropriate steps will be taken in this regard after the receipt of the Hon'ble High Court's order.