The teaching and non- teaching employees under the banner of Odisha Secondary School Teachers’ Association (OSSTA), after participating in a rally here on Thursday submitted a memorandum to the district Collector for the Chief Minister.
Their 13-point charter of demands included release of grant- in -aid (GIA) to 478 block grant high schools, abolition of para (6) for the new GIA schools, provision for periodical increment, DA and service condition at par with the fully aided schools, 100 per cent GIA for these schools as per 1981 yardstick and filling of all vacant posts, promotion, pension and other facilities for the teachers and employees of new Government secondary schools taking their entre service period into consideration, enhancement of age of superannuation, removing teachers from the responsibility of mid -day meal, higher scale as per qualification for the Sanskrit and PET of the new aided schools, among others.