The Pradesh Congress Teachers’ Cell held a general meeting here on Sunday under the chairmanship of cell president Kailash Chandra Baral.
Over a hundred of teachers attended the meeting and discussed various problems being faced by them.
PCC president Niranjan Patnaik and VP Aryakumar Jnanendra attended as guests and paid tributes to the martyrs.
Patnaik said that teachers play an important role in building the society and assured that all the problems of the teachers and institutions would solved if Congress come to power in the coming election.
Members demanded that pension be provided to retired teachers on time all vacant posts be filled up before starting of new session. They too demanded that different categories of teachers be annulled and the system of ‘equal pay for equal work’ be introduced.
General secretary Sanjeev Mohanty said that awareness would be created among the people about the anti-people policies of the State Government and anti-constitutional attitude of the Central Government at panchayat levels.
Among others, Dr Ashok Behera, Biprabara Sahu, Rajkishore Jena, Biranchi Narayan Mandal, Godabarish Paikray, Baikuntha Bihari Nayak, Himanshu Lenka and Gunamani Shah were present.