Hundreds of teachers under the banner of the Democratic Teachers’ Organisation (DTO), Odisha State Committee, held a mass protest here on Monday pressing for fulfilment of various demands.
The demands include fulfilling of all vacant teacher posts, providing Seventh Pay scale to Block Grant teachers of schools and colleges, not engaging teachers in non-teaching works, stopping privatisation of education system, restarting the pass-fail system from Class-1 and equal pay for equal work.
DTO State president Bibhuti Bhusan Nayak and secretary Nursingha Charan Panda strongly condemned the attitude of the State Government of suppressing the genuine demands of the Block Grant teachers and lecturers.They also said the State Government is fully responsible for the impasse over the evaluation of the Plus II answer sheets. Among others, Kishore Mishra, Akhaya Nayak, laxmidhar Mallik, laxmidhar Samal, Keshab Biswal and Sanjay Pal were present.