BHUBANESWAR: After three and half months, Block grant teaching and non-teaching staffs of 1,983 schools across the State have started indefinite strike again at the Lower PMG here demanding hike in salary and to provide full grant instead of block grant.
Thousands of Block grant employees were in a protest mood by holding lanterns and wearing black badges in front of the State Assembly. The teaching and non-teaching staffs have resumed their same four point-charter demand including hike in salary who have been working for more than 25 years, cent per cent grant for block grant staffs, providing of all facilities of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RSMA) to the block grant schools respectively.
It may be noted that Block grant staffs were in indefinite strike for 42 days from August 1 to the second week of September. They had called the strike off after the State Government’s assurance to look into the matter by constituting a high power committee.
“The high power committee is just like a shield to protect the heat of our hunger strike, nothing will be happened with this high power committee. We need a written commitment from the Chief Minister to fulfill our demand,” said State secretary Prashant Pati of Block Grant Teachers’ Association.
Members of the association will continue the strike till their demand is fulfilled. They will boycott the coming panchayat elections and the BPL survey, the secretary said.
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