The government has again started efforts towards regularizing the contract workers appointed in various government departments. After the proposal was returned from the cabinet, the government has started examining it. The matter is entangled with the cut off date. In such a situation, legal opinion is being taken on this proposal. Soon the revised proposal will be finalized and again presented before the cabinet. More than 15 thousand contract workers appointed in various departments in the state are agitating for regularization. For this, the rules are being amended. Actually, the government prepared the rules in the year 2011 for the regularization of ad-hoc, contract workers working in government departments, corporations, councils and autonomous institutions. In this, a provision was made to regularize the personnel who completed 10 years of service till the year 2011. After this, a second rule was brought in the year 2013. It was provided that the employees who could not be regularized under the rules made in the year 2011, will be regularized. Even after this rule, a large number of contract workers remained unregistered.
In such a situation, the government issued a revised regularization rule in the year 2016, in which the minimum service period of 10 years was reduced to five years. The High Court put a stay on this rule. The High Court lifted this stay in February this year. In the cabinet meeting held last month, i.e. in August, a proposal was brought to regularize the employees who completed 10 years of service by the year 2018. Some members of the cabinet did not agree with the cut off date. They were in favor of regularization of contract workers till the year 2024. On this, this proposal was again sent back to the personnel. Additional Chief Secretary Personnel Anand Bardhan says that the proposal for amendment in the rules is being examined, soon a decision will be taken on it and sent to the cabinet.
