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Odisha CM Announces 25% Salary Hike For Employees Hireds & contractual employee

Bhubaneswar:3/11/21: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has announced a 25 percent increase in the monthly remuneration of employees hired through outsourcing agencies and on a contractual basis in various departments of the state government.

Around 33,000 employees in various departments of the Odisha government will benefit and the state government will have to spend an additional Rs 100 crore annually for this.

The concerned agencies will deposit the EPFs and ESIs of employees hired by outsourcing and on a contract basis. The authorities of the department will ensure this. The Chief Minister also directed that stern action be taken against the companies that neglect to pay the above legal fees.

The chief minister also ordered the concerned authorities to allow a maximum of 12 days off per year for these employees. Similarly, in the case of maternity leave for pregnant women employees, the Chief Minister has advised the concerned authorities to take a decision as soon as possible.

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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