The Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Bhubaneswar circle, has urged the state government to extend provident fund and pension benefits to Asha, anganwadi, and midday meal workers in Odisha.
Teachers’ job scam kingpin held
ByAnurag BendeAnurag Bende / Updated: Jan 17, 2021, 06:00 IST
In a major action by police in the teachers’ recruitment scam, the economic offences wing (
EOW) arrested the prime accused in the case, Sambhaji Shirsath, who is a teachers’ union leader. Along with Shirsath, the police have named several officials of the
education department in the
Samarth police station on Friday.
Pune Zilla Parishad official Rajendra Sathe has submitted the complaint with the Samarth police against Shirsath, secretary of Subodh Education Institute, and the government officials concerned who were responsible for releasing salaries based on bogus papers.
On October 19, 2019, Mirror, in its Page 1cover story, first reported (‘State edu dept mired in recruitment scam’) about the scam.