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title: "CM Mohan Majhi Approves Major Education Reforms, Brings 194 High Schools Under Grant-in-Aid"
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date: 2026-11-15
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description: "Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has approved 15 key recommendations made by the Ashok Tripathy Committee, introducing wide-ranging reforms aimed at strengthening school infrastructure and improving staff welfare across the state...."
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# CM Mohan Majhi Approves Major Education Reforms, Brings 194 High Schools Under Grant-in-Aid

**Bhubaneswar:** The Odisha government has approved 15 key recommendations made by the Ashok Tripathy Committee, introducing wide-ranging reforms aimed at strengthening school infrastructure and improving staff welfare across the state.

Under the new directives announced by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi, 194 high schools—which were previously left out of the 2013 Block Grant scheme—will now be officially brought under the state's grant-in-aid system. Additionally, the government has approved a significant pay hike for part-time art, music, and sports instructors, raising their monthly remuneration from ₹10,000 to ₹16,000.

- **Arrear Salaries and Regularisations:** The state will clear pending salary arrears for Trained Graduate Teachers (TGT) and Physical Education Teachers (PET) who were regularised in 2022. The government will also initiate long-awaited promotions for primary school teachers and move forward with regularising Sikshya Sahayaks appointed between 2016 and 2018.

- **Upgrades for Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas (OAVs):** To boost educational standards and staff retention in OAVs, the administration will open residential hostels, stabilise staff salaries, and safeguard the pay structures of TGTs. In a major welfare move, children of OAV employees will also be permitted to study in these institutions.

- **Modernising Classrooms:** As part of a push toward future-ready education, the government announced plans to install dedicated Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics labs across Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas.