Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Friday approved the grant-in-aid for 194 high schools and increased the monthly honorarium of part-time art, music and sports teachers from Rs 10,000 to Rs 16,000, addressing long-standing demands of teachers and non-teaching staff in educational institutions.
The decisions were among 15 recommendations made by the Ashok Tripathy Committee, which was constituted to examine demands raised by teachers’, lecturers’ and employees’ associations in government, government-aided and unaided private educational institutions under the School and Mass Education department and the Higher Education department.
The decisions were taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Majhi here. “Altogether, 194 high schools that were left out of the 2013 Government Block Grant Scheme will now be brought under the grant-in-aid system. Similarly, the monthly honorarium of part-time art, music and sports teachers working in government schools will be increased from Rs 10,000 to Rs 16,000,” an official said after the meeting.
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The state government has also decided to pay arrears to Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs) and Physical Education Teachers (PETs) in government secondary schools who completed six years of service and were regularised in 2022. Regular promotions for primary school teachers and the regularisation of Sikshya Sahayaks appointed between 2016 and 2018 have also been approved.
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