By Our Correspondent
BHUBANESWAR:State General Secretary Shri Biranchi Narayan Tripathi expressed his heartfelt thanks and gratitude to the Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi and the state government for this benevolent, visionary and courageous step taken for the welfare of the teaching community and the strengthening of schools, public education and higher education sectors, through a press conference held at the state office today.
In a press conference held at the state office, Shri Tripathi said that education plays a major role in shaping a society. Teachers in the field of education build a new future. For a long time, those teachers were protesting on the streets for their unjust demands, due to which the school system was in a state of chaos. That is why our government and the Bharatiya Janata Party are very sensitive to the demands and problems of teachers and professors. Our government took immediate steps and constituted a high-level committee. The committee held about 90 meetings with representatives of 104 teachers’ organizations and submitted a total of 79 reports to the state government by September 22, 2026. The committee presented the report to the Hon’ble Chief Minister, Minister of Higher and Mass Education, Principal Secretary to Government, Development Commissioner, Finance Secretary and other concerned departmental secretaries.
Since coming to power, our government has been taking many steps to improve the education system, make it progressive and for the overall development of the education sector. “Mohan Sarkar has spoken and spoken again.” In this context, the state government has taken another important step yesterday. The high-level committee formed under the chairmanship of the Hon’ble Chief Minister in the first phase has taken a historic decision to implement the 15 recommendations of the high-level empowered committee, said State General Secretary Shri Tripathi.
Hon’ble Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi has taken a big and historic step towards making the education system of the state more robust, dynamic and qualitative and resolving the long-standing problems of various teaching and non-teaching staff. The way the state government has decided to implement 15 important recommendations at once based on the recommendations of the retired IAS Shri Ashok Kumar Tripathi Committee has opened a new chapter in the education sector of the state, said State General Secretary Shri Tripathi.
Through this welcome initiative, 194 high schools that were deprived of government block grant in 2013 have been made eligible for grant, and the monthly salary of part-time art, music and sports teachers has been increased by 60 percent from Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 16,000. Similarly, the government has fulfilled the long-standing demand of primary teachers for regular promotions by providing regular promotions in 4 years and 8 years and creating opportunities for qualified teachers to be promoted to BEO and DEO, which will benefit more than 2 lakh primary teachers, said State General Secretary Shri Tripathi.
The decision to regularize the teaching assistants appointed between 2016 and 2018, appoint regular teachers in the first and middle Sanskrit tolls, include classical teachers employed in government schools in the Trend Graduate (TG) teacher qualification list, pay regular salaries to vocational trainers, give opportunity to Odisha Junior Teachers (Schematic) to acquire further qualifications, and pay arrears to government secondary school teachers who were regularized in 2022 is highly commendable.
Similarly, the decision to make the residential hostels of Adarsh schools operational, to make arrangements for regular salaries of all employees working in Adarsh schools, to protect the previous employment and salaries of TGT teachers appointed in Adarsh schools, to make arrangements for the children of Adarsh school employees to study in Adarsh schools, to make the students future-oriented and to open a dedicated laboratory will be a strong step towards shaping the future citizens of Odisha, said State General Secretary Shri Tripathi.State Spokesperson Shri Dilip Malik and Spokesperson Shri Sanjay Rath were prominently present at this press conference.
