Bhubaneswar: The State Government on Monday decided to increase the salaries of Junior Teachers and Junior Teachers (Kontraktual) by 50%, a measure that will be useful 33,038 teachers who work in various elementary schools throughout the state.
The increase will start retrospectively from January 1 1.
Teacher Junior Contraktual, who gets Rs 7,400 salaries per month, will now get Rs 11,000.
Likewise, the salary of the junior teacher has been upgraded from Rs 9,200 to Rs 13,800.
The government’s decision will help 13,324 Junior Teachers Contract and 19,714 Teacher Junior and will cost an additional RS 168 Crore every year.
The move came three days after the government implemented the 7th payment commission, increased a salary of nearly 42,000 teaching and non-new-assisted high school teaching staff, elementary school (middle school), madrasas, and non-governmental universities Assisted.
The Odisha teacher association President Akshaya Padhi said they had asked the government to climb the salary of the contractual junior teacher to rs 16,000 per month.
“We demand that the government recognize them as people who are appointed and pay salaries like others.
We hope the government will fulfill the request later,” Padhi said.
BJP leader Dilip Kumar Mallick said the state government took this decision by accelerating the election of perfection in mind.
“Why does it make a decision now instead of applying it one year back? RS 11,000 salary for Kontraktual Junior Teachers and Rs 13,800 for Junior Teachers are very lacking,” added the BJP leader.