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Bhubaneswar, March 14: The state government has decided to accede to the long-standing demands of the All Orissa Plus II Vocational Teachers’ Association to regularise 231 junior lecturer posts after a period of 24 years.
The state government has formed a high-powered committee to go into the modalities of regularising the posts, which will be a complicated affair as the current junior lecturers are all outsourced employees.
According to norms, any employee who has been in service for over six years will be regularised automatically.
In 1991, 600 posts of junior lectures were created and subsequently in 2002, 369 of these posts were abolished by the government. As of now, there are 231 junior lecturer posts lying vacant, which are being managed by outsourced employees since 2002.
They have been engaged as full-time resource personnel with a consolidated remuneration without leave benefits.
The proposed committee will be headed by Ajay Kumar Nayak, joint secretary of higher education department.
The other members in the committee will be the state liaison officer of the higher education department along with the director and deputy director of vocational education.
The state government has told the committee to consider the declaration or adjustment of the full-time resource personnel as junior lecturers out of the existing vacant posts as top priority.
