As many as 15,000 trained Sikshya Sahayaks under the banner of BEd Shiksha Sahayak Sangha, Odisha held a Mahasamvesh on Sunday and began sitting on an indefinite dharna at Mahatma Gandhi Marg here to press for their demand.
A delegation of the Sangha on being called by School and Mass Education Secretary Ranjana Chopra went to her office at the State Secretariat. But the Secretary asked them to write their names, schools’ names, the addresses of their BEOs and DEOs and left her office, saying to them that they should apprise the Minister about their problem so that he would look into it.
later, after being called by School and Mass Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra, a delegation of the Sangha met him and held discussions with him. But though the Minister sympathised with them, he expressed his inability to implement TGT. He said he would send their proposal to the Fitment Committee and after the department receives approval he would implement it.
The Sangha demanded TGT to be immediately implemented in Upper Primary Schools, implementation of the 7th Pay Commission recommendations.
The Sangha demanded the Chief Minister’s intervention to solve their problems. Otherwise, 51,000 teachers would go on mass leave and take to the streets. If studies are affected in the schools, the Government would be responsible for it, it said.
Among others, Sangha president Ajay Kumar Dhal, secretary general Umesh Chandra Nayak, working president Duryodhan Das and general secretary Debendra Nayak were present.