Mohammed Younus/ hyderabad: Thouagh the time given for the special committee to study the regularization of 30,000 contract employees in the State ended last month, members of the committee have not made any recommendation to the Telangana government. The eight-member committee, headed by the Chief Secretary, met twice on the issue and said that they need more such meetings to suggest suitable measures to the state government on the crucial issue.
There are thousands of employees working for several years in various departments on contract basis. Apart from them, several outsourcing and time-scale employees are also big in number. After much hue and cry from the contract employees of different departments, the state government has constituted the committee to formulate a regularization scheme of these employees. The committee was given two months to suggest to the government on the issue. It was given a task of studying the method of appointment, categories of contract personnel, compliance with rule of reservation and all related issues. Higher Education Secretary Vikas Raj said that only two meetings have been conducted till date and it would be premature to come to any conclusion as the process may take considerable time. He said that the committee was studying the issue closely and more new things were needed to clear lot of doubts.
The state government has promised to regularize the contract employees at any cost after verifying the facts of recruitment process. The committee actually had to verify the terms of references during the whole process of scrutiny. According to an estimate, there are about 30,000 contract employees working in various government departments in Telangana. Most of the contract employees are in Panchayat Raj, Education and Medical departments. The number of contract employees working as Junior Lectures is around 4,000.
Educationists and experts on the other hand said that the promise of regularization may not see the implementation as there were some legal hurdles and Supreme Court directions. According to an educationist who wanted to be anonymous, Act 2 of 1994 hinders any kind of recruitment for the public sector and they should be done through a test conducted by a Public Service Commission. “There is no other route for such jobs. Secondly, the rule of reservation must be followed,” he said. On the other hand, recruitment on contract basis can be done only after specifying the period of recruitment.
Also, the State Service Rules state that only 10 per cent employees can get promotion and 90 per cent employees should be recruited through the Public Service Commission. Interestingly, several student organizations from the state are opposing the decision of state government to regularize the contract employees.
There are thousands of employees working for several years in various departments on contract basis. Apart from them, several outsourcing and time-scale employees are also big in number. After much hue and cry from the contract employees of different departments, the state government has constituted the committee to formulate a regularization scheme of these employees. The committee was given two months to suggest to the government on the issue. It was given a task of studying the method of appointment, categories of contract personnel, compliance with rule of reservation and all related issues. Higher Education Secretary Vikas Raj said that only two meetings have been conducted till date and it would be premature to come to any conclusion as the process may take considerable time. He said that the committee was studying the issue closely and more new things were needed to clear lot of doubts.The state government has promised to regularize the contract employees at any cost after verifying the facts of recruitment process. The committee actually had to verify the terms of references during the whole process of scrutiny. According to an estimate, there are about 30,000 contract employees working in various government departments in Telangana. Most of the contract employees are in Panchayat Raj, Education and Medical departments. The number of contract employees working as Junior Lectures is around 4,000.
Educationists and experts on the other hand said that the promise of regularization may not see the implementation as there were some legal hurdles and Supreme Court directions. According to an educationist who wanted to be anonymous, Act 2 of 1994 hinders any kind of recruitment for the public sector and they should be done through a test conducted by a Public Service Commission. “There is no other route for such jobs. Secondly, the rule of reservation must be followed,” he said. On the other hand, recruitment on contract basis can be done only after specifying the period of recruitment.
Also, the State Service Rules state that only 10 per cent employees can get promotion and 90 per cent employees should be recruited through the Public Service Commission. Interestingly, several student organizations from the state are opposing the decision of state government to regularize the contract employees.
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