Odisha SSB Lecturers Demand Revision Of Grade Pay, Threaten Cease-Work

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Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Selection Board (SSB) Lecturers’ Association has threatened to boycott the Plus II examination and evaluation duty as a protest, if the state government fails to meet their demand for rectification of grade pay within a fortnight.

Addressing mediapersons here on Sunday, the Association members said the government resumed appointment of SSB lecturers in aided degree colleges after a gap of over 24 years and over 4,500 lecturers have already been appointed since 2016.

But, unlike lecturers of government degree colleges and aided colleges appointed prior to 1992 on grade pay of Rs 5,600, the new lecturers of SSB have been appointed at a lower scale of pay of Rs 4,600.

They claimed that though they had appealed to the government to rectify the grade pay of SSB-recruited lecturers from Rs 4,600 to Rs 5,400 notionally with retrospective effect from 2016, the government has failed to heed their request.

Reiterating their demanded, they threatened that if the government fails to take steps to do away with the discrepancies, they would be forced to resort to cease-work agitation and boycott the annual Plus II examination.