Punjab Government on Thursday decided to minutely assess and analyse every aspect for regularisation of its employees before arriving at any firm decision.
The decision was taken in the meeting of the State Cabinet sub-committee, held under the chairmanship of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal to explore and assess various options regarding regularisation of employees in various departments.
The meeting was attended by Revenue Minister Bikram Singh Majithia, Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema, Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Sikander Singh Maluka, Industries, Commerce and Technical Education Minister Madan Mohan Mittal, Health and Family Welfare Minister Surjit Kumar Jyani, local Government, Medical Education and Research Minister Anil Joshi, among others officials of various departments.
“Each and every aspect of this significant issue should be minutely studied and analysed before arriving at any firm decision,” said Sukhbir.
He directed the state Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal and Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister SK Sandhu to examine the issue department-wise and category-wise besides looking into the mode of recruitment so as to specify the conditions for regularisation of services.
Sukhbir further said that another meeting of the cabinet sub-committee would be convened shortly.
Punjab Cabinet, in its previous meeting, had decided to set up a ministerial committee, under Deputy Chief Minister, to look into various aspects of regularisation of various categories of Government employees and make recommendation in this regard in the next Cabinet meeting.
The Committee comprises Finance Minister, Industries and Commerce Minister, local Government Minister, Education Minister and Health Minister.