BHUBANESWAR: After three and a half months, the Block Grant teaching and non-teaching staff of 1,983 schools across the State on Thursday started an indefinite strike again at the Lower PMG Square here demanding hike in salary and provision of full grant instead of block grant.
Thousands of Block Grant employees held lanterns and wore black badges in front of the State Assembly. They reiterated their four-point charter demands, including hike in salary for those working for more than 25 years, cent per cent grant for schools and providing all facilities of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan to the schools.
The Block Grant staff were on indefinite strike for 42 days from August 1. They had called off the strike after the State Government’s assurance to consider their demands by constituting a high power committee.
“The high power committee is just like a shield for the Government to escape from the impact of our hunger strike, but nothing will happen with this committee. We need a written commitment from the Chief Minister to fulfil our demands,” said State secretary Prashant Pati of the Block Grant Teachers’ Association.
Members of the association would boycott the coming panchayat elections and the BPL survey, he added.
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