Haryana Government has decided to provide reservation in the case of persons to be engaged on contract basis under part-II of its outsourcing policy.
A circular to this effect has been issued by the Chief Secretary to all the departments on Friday.
As per provisions of part-II of outsourcing policy, whenever it is emergent for the department to hire personnel in Group C and D vacant posts, the Department could engage persons by sending requisition to Employment Exchange and by advertisement in the newspapers, purely on contract basis.
The Chief Secretary’s order stated, “The State Government has reconsidered the matter and has decided to provide reservation in the case of persons to be engaged on contract basis under part -II of the outsourcing policy. Other terms and conditions of the policy shall remain unchanged.”
The issue of providing reservation in recruitments through outsourcing policy was raised in the recently concluded Haryana Assembly session. The opposition legislators had demanded reservation policy to be followed in the outsourced jobs.
In government jobs, scheduled castes, backward classes, economically backward persons (EBPs) belonging to general category among others gets the benefit of reservation in Haryana.
Notably, the Haryana Government has crapped interview for Group C and D posts to bring more transparency in recruitment exercise.
The Chief Minister Manohar lal had in the State Assembly announced a slew of incentives in class C and D posts for job aspirants, including candidates having no family members in government service, widows, sons or daughters of widows and orphans. The recruitment criteria has 85 marks for the written examination and 15 marks for the socio-economic status and experience.