After water and power consumers, it was the turn of contractual employees of Delhi Government who were given relief as promised but with a rider. Announcing to fulfil their commitment, Delhi Government on Friday said all temporary and casual employees posted in various departments will be regularised but they will have to go through screening process, including a written test and interview to get their job regularised.
The Government has on Friday also set up a 13-member high level committee to frame a policy and guidelines to regularise contractual, temporary and casual employees working with the various departments of the State Government. The committee headed by Chief Secretary Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, will submit its report within a month. At present, it is
estimated that there are around 2.5 lakh such employees in transport, health, education, power, DTC and other departments of Delhi Government while the total vacancy is available only 36,000. In its manifesto, AAP had promised that all contractual and temporary employees will be given permanent jobs, if voted to power. The Arvind Kejriwal Government is facing protests from contractual employees unions of various departments after formation of the Government on December 28.
The Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday announced the setting up a high level committee headed by chief secretary to formulate guidelines. The committee will examine the status of the recruitment process so far in the national Capital and how many people have been employed on temporary, casual and contractual basis and since when are the regular posts vacant and what will be the legal, technical and financial aspects of giving preference to existing employees. According to officials, it is estimated that there are 2.5 lakh contractual employees in Delhi.
Meanwhile, criticising Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, leader of Opposition Dr Harsh Vardhan said Kejriwal had promised to regularise all contractual employees of Delhi Government and now he is back tracking from his promises. They are now talking about written test and interview for contractual employees, why they have not revealed that those seeking permanent job will have to pass written test and interview,” he said.
36,000 vacancies will take 165 months to fill
As per data available from Delhi Subordinate Service Selection Board (DSSSB), there are 36,000 vacant posts under various departments in Delhi and it will take at least 165 months to fill these posts. Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday said that there were 18,500 vacancies in 2008 and over 20 lakh applicants have applied for these posts. Due to such large number of applicants, the DSSSB could not be scrutinised their applications. The members of the Guest Teachers’ Association have been protesting outside the Secretariat since January 15 demanding regularisation of their job. There are 12,500 guest teachers in various schools across the city.