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The Odisha authorities connected Monday (September 29, 2025) accrued the regular moving hours to 10 hours, taxable to a 48-hour play cap. It besides allowed women successful backstage establishments to enactment nighttime shifts taxable to their written consent.
The Cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Majhi, approved an amendment to the Factories Act, 1948, aimed astatine promoting concern concern and creating much employment opportunities.
“The State authorities has extended the full fig of hours of enactment without an interval to six hours and accrued the dispersed implicit up to 12 hours inclusive of intervals for rest,” work the authoritative statement.
“Where a idiosyncratic works for much than the prescribed hours, they would beryllium entitled to wages astatine the complaint of doubly their mean complaint of wages for overtime work,” it added.
Moreover, the overtime enactment bounds has been accrued from 115 hours to 144 hours each fiscal quarter.
“Women tin beryllium employed successful each factories for each types of work. They whitethorn besides beryllium employed earlier 6 a.m. and beyond 7 p.m. with their written consent,” the authorities said.
These reforms are expected to pull caller investments, alteration factories to conscionable highest request and summation productivity, the authorities said.
Development of exemplary schools
In different important decision, the Cabinet approved the improvement of exemplary schools nether the Godabarisha Adarsha Vidyalaya (GAV) strategy astatine the gram panchayat level, with a absorption connected inclusive and prime education.
Aligning with the objectives of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, the GAV strategy aims to guarantee adjacent entree to acquisition and holistic improvement of the pupil community.
“This inaugural is successful enactment with the imaginativeness of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 and the NIPUN Odisha scheme, and places a peculiar absorption connected enhancing foundational literacy and numeracy skills to empower children socially and educationally,” the connection added.
In the archetypal phase, spanning 3 years (2025-26 to 2027-28), a full of 2,200 exemplary schools volition beryllium constructed with an estimated outlay of ₹12,000 crore.
