To give opportunity to government servants appointed on contract for appointment on regular posts, various decisions have been taken at the State Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
This policy of the State Government will be effective for all contractual employees, already working/ worked earlier in all government departments, special purpose vehicles constituted for implementation of national programmes, Madhya Pradesh State Employment Guarantee Council, state/district health committee and Madhya Pradesh Education for All Campaign. The posts which are sanctioned for contract service in administrative set up of all the departments will be converted in regular posts in phase manner. Twenty per cent posts, out of those to be filled up by every department in next three years, will be reserved for government employees on contract. Only those contractual employees will be eligible to get benefit under this reservation, who have been appointed for minimum five years in the category of the post which is vacant in direct recruitment. The period of five years must be completed on the date of submitting application for the vacant post. If any contractual servant has worked on different posts, his or her total services should be five years.
If he or she has worked on contract for posts of different categories, then he or she will file application for the post of the category which is the minimum category post in five years, after calculation of the period of five years.
In case, contractual servant has worked on the posts of one or more grade, he or she will get relaxation in maximum age limit in the years, on which he or she has worked for the years on contractual post of equal and higher grade. Maximum age including relaxation should not be more than 55 years on the date mentioned in the advertisement for recruitment or date of application. Reservation rules for scheduled caste/scheduled tribe and other backward classes will be followed in the appointment process. Services of government servant on contract will not be terminated in mechanical manner. Services will be terminated only after proper investigation. Provision will be made to fix monthly salary of contractual employees, equal to minimum 90 per cent of salary of equal regular posts. The Government servants appointed on contract will be given annual increment in January every year, on the basis of rise in consumer price index in the period. This amount will be rounded up in the nearest Rs 100.