Teachers’ Agitation: Odisha Government To Replace ‘Affidavit’ With ‘Written Intimation’

Photograph: Ashok Panda

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Tuesday issued a notification clarifying that the word ‘affidavit’ will be dropped from its October 2017 order and will be replaced with ‘written intimation’.

Meanwhile, Odisha School College Teachers and Employees’ Joint Forum member Golak Nayak, who was detained by cops during a dharna staged by the agitating teachers in front of Capital High School in the morning, was released by police after four hours of detention.

Condemning the state government’s decision to make alternative arrangements for Matric answer sheet evaluation, the agitating teachers stated that the officials concerned are attempting to paralyze the education system.

The teachers had staged separate demonstrations in front of 57 evaluation centres to across the state and prevented the other teachers from participating in the evaluation process.