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School teachers allege violations in promotions

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Threaten to launch State-wide agitation

UP IN ARMS: Teachers staging a dharna under the banner of the All-Orissa Government School Teachers' Union in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.

BHUBANESWAR: Alleging `violation of standing guidelines in promoting some teachers to headmasters post', members of All Orissa Government School Teachers' Union (AOGSTU) on Sunday launched a state-wide agitation.

The union threatened to sit on an indefinite strike in front of the State Assembly from the first day of budget session. "We want government to follow the standing guidelines relating to appointment of headmasters. A trained graduate teacher with seven years of teaching experience could only be taken as headmasters. However, 854 teachers were appointed by sidestepping the statute," AOGSTU general secretary Ramakanta Mohapatra alleged.

He said under what circumstances the government had appointed 854 headmasters, whose qualification did not permit for the promotion, must be thoroughly probed.

"They were once reverted from headmasters' post following High Court and Orissa Administrative Tribunal directives which asked the State Government to follow the existing criteria. But subsequently, the Government having some motives adjusted the 854 ineligible headmasters under vacancies against SC/ST quota," Mr. Mohapatra alleged.

The AOGSTU demanded that all facilities including increased pay-scale being provided to these `ineligible headmasters' be withdrawn immediately.

The teachers' union during the agitation, which they called it as Satyagrah, would wear black badge in protest against the Government's decision.

"Unless the State Government made it a mandatory to draw teachers from `trained teachers' categories for headmasters' post, we would continue the agitation," Subal Charan Bhol, AOGSTU president, said.

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