Bhubaneswar: Lecturers recruited by the State Selection Board (SSB) under the higher education department for different aided colleges on Sunday warned of boycotting the Plus II board examinations and subsequent evaluation work if their grade pay was not increased within 15 days.
Teachers under the aegis of Odisha SSB Lecturers Association (OSLA) demanded the state government to increase their grade pay from Rs 4,600 to Rs 5,400 with retrospective effect from 2016, on Sunday.
Association’s secretary Lambodar Rout said the state government had stopped recruitment of lecturers in aided degree colleges after 1992, which was resumed in 2016. Government has appointed more than 4,500 such lecturers so far, he added.
“While the lecturers in government degree and aided colleges were appointed on the same pay scale in in 1989, after 2016, they are being recruited at a lower grade pay of Rs 4,600. The grade pay doesn’t correspond to the post and status of degree lecturers,” said Rout.
Higher education minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak said the issues have been discussed by the inter-ministerial committee of the government. “We are also discussing this issue,” he added.
Teachers under the aegis of Odisha SSB Lecturers Association (OSLA) demanded the state government to increase their grade pay from Rs 4,600 to Rs 5,400 with retrospective effect from 2016, on Sunday.
Association’s secretary Lambodar Rout said the state government had stopped recruitment of lecturers in aided degree colleges after 1992, which was resumed in 2016. Government has appointed more than 4,500 such lecturers so far, he added.
“While the lecturers in government degree and aided colleges were appointed on the same pay scale in in 1989, after 2016, they are being recruited at a lower grade pay of Rs 4,600. The grade pay doesn’t correspond to the post and status of degree lecturers,” said Rout.
Higher education minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak said the issues have been discussed by the inter-ministerial committee of the government. “We are also discussing this issue,” he added.