Thousands of BEd teachers under the banner of the Milita BEd Sikshak Mahasangha held a massive rally at the Lower PMG here on Tuesday pressing for fulfilment of their seven-point charter of demands.
Alleging the callous attitude of the State Government towards their demands, the teachers said the even if their association has presented its demands to the Government many times through Press meets and memorandums, but there is no response from it so far.
BEd Shiksha Sahayak Sangha president Ajaya Kumar Dhal said the Government has divided elementary education into two parts, i.e, Primary School and Upper Primary School and the BEd teachers were given appointment in the Upper Primary Schools, but yet they are considered as Primary School teachers.
The demands include providing salary as per TGT scale to the BEd teachers who are working in the Upper Primary Schools, immediate implementation of the July 1, 2014 Cadre Rule, implementing promotion-based recruitment system for the highly qualified teachers, regularising the contractual junior teachers and junior teaches and providing an increment a year abolishing the six years tenure of regularisation of service.
The demands also include increasing death allowance from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 10 lakh for untimely death of contractual junior teachers and junior teaches and implementing old pension rules instead of new pension rules for all the teaches who have been appointed after 2005.
The Mahasangha sought intervention of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for fulfilment of their demands. Among others, teachers’ leaders Laxman Kumar Mohanty, Santosh Kumar Pradhan, Debendra Kumar Nayak, Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Muralidhar Nayak, Saroj Kumar Panda, Umesh Chandra Nayak, Guruprasad Das, Durjyodhan Das, Sachikant Mishra, Nursingha Charan Sahoo and Ratikant Das were present.