Around 100 Data Entry Operators working in different tehsil offices in the State gheraoed Revenue Minister Bijayshree Routray’s residence here on Tuesday demanding job regularisation.
The agitating employees, who were appointed on contractual basis in 2006 at 306 tehsil offices in the State, were first engaged for maintaining of land records. later they were given the responsibility of digitalisation of land records. Besides, they have been working in various Government projects. As the State Government didn’t pay any heed to their demands, they were forced to take to the streets, said Odisha State Tehsil Data Entry Operators Association president Nrusingha Charan Nayak.
Nayak said as many as 600 Data Entry Operators were working in the tehsils of the State. He alleged that though the General Administration Department had issued a resolution in September, 2013 to regularise all the contractual posts, yet no step has been taken.
‘If the State Government doesn’t take any step to fulfill our demands, we will intensify our agitation,” said general secretary of the association Sangram Keshari Raut.