Bhubaneswar: Members of the All Odisha Aided College (Category 488) Teachers and employees on Sunday held a rally in the lower PMG here demanding the government to provide facilities under the GIA (GIA) system.
They want facilities including pensions, names in the list of cadres, promotions and salaries of the seventh payment commission.
Hundreds of teachers came out in the procession starting from the main sac to reduce PMG that protested the sluggish attitude of the state government in fulfilling their demands.
They held a rally and Dharna on the lower PMG to impose pressure on the government about this problem.
The teachers installed LED TVs on the Dharna site and played the news clip that displayed the announcement of Minister Naveen Naveen to eliminate the Grant block system.
On September 1, 2017, the state government abolished the Grant block system and replaced it with the GIA system.
Naveen has announced that considering the 17-day agitation organized by the grant teacher who demanded Gia.
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“Even though the state government has implemented the GIA system for the 488-university category teacher, it does not provide certain facilities received by other regular teachers who get the GIA salary.
Our teacher must get a pension under the rules of the Benefits of Pension, 1981 and the Seventh Payment Commission Salary , “said the association that worked President Manas Purohit.
He said the department must also provide promotional facilities to the 488-college category teacher.
“Our names must come to the list of cadres.
Some juniors we get a good promotion, but why don’t we? We want a transfer facility like an ordinary teacher.
Why did we serve one college to retire?” He added.
The Association of Convener Aditya Prasad Rath accused the government did not take the steps needed to resolve their problems.
“When we did not get a response from the government, we hit the road on Sunday.
We will do this Dharna at PMG which is lower every Sunday to urge the government to meet our demands,” he added.
However, officials of the Ministry of Higher Education did not comment on this problem.