Agitating Odisha Teachers Threaten To Go On Mass Leave

Bhubaneswar: The agitating teachers on Tuesday threatened to go on mass leave after their discussion with the Odisha government reportedly failed to yield result.

After the meeting with the Chief Secretary, the teachers’ association said that they would intensify the strike as the talks have failed to resolve their issues.

Leaders of the association said the protesting teachers will proceed on mass leave from December 1 if the state government fails to give a positive response on their demands.

The demands of the agitating teachers, who have been staging dharna in Bhubaneswar since Sunday, include abolition of the contractual appointment system, an increment to those who were appointed since 2001 and the reimplementation of the old pension scheme.

The protesters alleged that the government had promised to abolish the contractual appointment system and regularize jobs of all the teachers at the higher secondary schools who had joined after 2004. However, these contractual teachers alleged that the notification of the General Administration department lacks transparency.