Odisha Minister Directs To Set Up Pension Cell In Higher Education Department

Bhubaneswar: The Higher Education department of Odisha government will have a dedicated pension cell to cater to the retired employees.

Minister of Higher Education Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak directed the officials to take necessary steps in this regard in a review meeting on the activities of the department on Saturday. The department must maintain integrity and transparency in adherence with 5T governance of the government, he said.

The minister told the officials that a dedicated pension cell should start functioning immediately and the employees must receive their pension on the day of their retirement. Steps should also be taken to cleat all pending pension cases as per a timeline, he added.

Stating that all efforts should be made to fill up the vacancies of teaching and non-teaching staff in the colleges, he directed to create a database of all the faculty of the government aided/GIA colleges through a Software so that the vacancies can be monitored.

The minister also reviewed the status of RUSA and World Bank funding, students’ scholarships and others. A detailed discussion was made on improvement in standard of higher education and development of educational institutions. The steps to achieve higher NAAC ranking and participation in National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) also figured in the discussion.

Arabinda Agrawal, secretary, Higher Education and officials of the department were present in the meeting held at Lok Seva Bhawan in Bhubaneswar.