The Odisha Shiksha Sahayak Association has threatened that all 62,000 Shiksha Sayayaks would go on leave en masse and take to the streets if their six demands, including job regularisation, are not met by the Government before the coming session of the State Assembly.
The association took this decision at a meeting held here under chairmanship of president Malay Kumar Jena on Sunday.
The demands include accordance of teacher status to all 62,000 working Shiksha Sahayaks, provision of social security and financial aids in case of death, payment of minimum salary of Rs 18,000 as per 7th Pay Commission, cancellation of OTET for 2012 Siksha Sahayaks and clarification of OTET related letter issued on August 8, 2017, payment of TGT scale salary to TGT Shiksha Sahayaks and accordance of subject-wise teacher status to them, accordance of regular teacher status to all Shikha Sahayaks appointed in 2011 and relaxation in transfer policy.
Among others, general secretaries Arjun Kumar Sethi and Srikant Kumar Nayak, secretary general Sarbeswar Gochhi, working president Bibekananda Behera, vice-presidents Soubhagya Mishra and State coordinator Sumant Kumar Pal were present.