Bill on solution to regularise 35,000 authorities workers: Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann

Express News Service

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has introduced that 35,000 Group C and D authorities workers will probably be regularised.

Mann stated that he has directed chief secretary Anirudh Tewari to arrange the draft of a invoice for regularising the providers of those workers earlier than the subsequent session of the Assembly. “We will approve the draft legislation in the Assembly and regularise the employees engaged through contracts and outsourcing,” he stated.

“I have held meetings with all officers in the government and asked the chief secretary to stop the practice of contractual employment. Schools have no teachers, but eligible teachers are climbing atop water tanks to protest against the government for not regularising their services. They have  to be adjusted according to the vacant posts,” stated Mann.

He stated they wish to implement this on the earliest, by getting the invoice handed within the Assembly since he doesn’t need these lecturers to be protesting on the roads. Before elections, AAP had promised it could regularise these providers, if voted to energy.

Interestingly, the earlier Congress authorities had additionally determined to regularise round 36,000 workers engaged on a contractual, advert hoc or non permanent foundation. The then authorities had on November 11 handed the Punjab Protection and Regularisation of Contractual Employees Bill 2021 and despatched it to Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit for approval. But on January 2, the invoice was despatched again by the governor elevating queries.

Meanwhile, the Assembly has adopted a unanimous decision moved by the Leader of the House and CM Mann to put in statues of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Bharat Ratna Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar and Sher-e-Punjab Maharaja Ranjit Singh contained in the advanced of the Assembly.