There is good news for contract and outsourcing employees. Their demand to regularize themselves is going to be fulfilled. For this, instructions have been given to prepare a draft of the bill, which will be approved. After this these employees will become regular.
New Delhi: There is good news for contractual and outsourcing employees. Their demand to regularize themselves is going to be fulfilled. For this, instructions have been given to prepare a draft of the bill, which will be approved. After this these employees will become regular.
35 thousand employees will be regular in Punjab
In fact, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced on Tuesday that the services of 35,000 contractual and outsourcing employees of Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ in government departments would be regularised. According to Mann, he has directed Chief Secretary Anirudh Tiwari to prepare a draft bill to regularize the services of employees before the next session of the Assembly.
Employees were protesting for a long time
“We will approve the draft law in the assembly and regularize the employees engaged through contract and outsourcing. This will be a historic decision of the government,” he said in a video message. Mann said that contractual and outsourcing workers have been protesting for a long time for regularization of jobs. “There was no chowk (crossroad) or water tank where they were not protesting,” he said.
He said that there are no teachers in the schools, while the eligible teachers are protesting by climbing water tanks just outside the institutions for jobs. “There is no need to create any employment for this. We will do that too, but we have to fill the existing jobs first,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mann declared March 23, the martyrdom day of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev, as a holiday as a tribute to the great.
‘Holiday declared to pay tribute to martyrs’
Responding to Congress’s Giddarbaha MLA Amarinder Singh Raja’s demand to keep all schools and colleges open instead of declaring all schools and colleges as holidays, Mann said that the holiday has been declared as a fitting tribute to these great martyrs. .
Clarifying the rationale for declaring this day as a state-level holiday, he said that earlier this holiday was declared only locally within the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district, so that people from adjoining areas would visit the martyr memorial in his native village Khatkar Kalan. To pay tribute.
“Now, our government has decided to declare this day as gazetted holiday in the entire state, so that more and more people from across the state can pay homage to the great martyrs including students and teachers in both Khatkar Kalan and Hussainiwala, as these martyrs are celebrated throughout the state. belong to the country and hence cannot be confined to one place.”
