Committee To Regularise Contract Employees

The Telangana Government on Wednesday constituted a high-level committee to examine the regularisation of the services of the contract personnel working in government departments and other institutions under the control of the State government.

The 8-member committee will be headed by the Chief Secretary, and the Secretary of the Finance Department will be its Member Convener.

Besides the Principal Secretaries of LET&F Department and the HM&FW Department, the Secretaries of the School Education, the GA (Ser) and the Law departments will be its members.

The committee will also go into the details of the various categories of contract personnel, the methods of their appointment, their compliance with the rules of reservation and all other related issues, so as to formulate a scheme for regularization of contract personnel, for the approval of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

The Committee has been asked to submit a comprehensive report to formulate a scheme for the regularization, within a period of two months.

The State government, in its GO issued on Wednesday, said that several personnel were being engaged on a contract basis for certain technical and other categories in government departments and other institutions to meet short-term manpower requirements. The terms of these contract personnel were being extended from time to time based on requirements, with fresh contracts duly being entering into upon mutually agreed terms.

"Most of the Contract personnel are working over a long period of time against the regular posts sanctioned and there is a request from their side to evolve a scheme for regularisation of the Contract Employees. Therefore, the government has decided to constitute a committee of officers to examine the issue with reference to provisions of the A.P. Act 2 of 1994, State and Subordinate Service Rules, Special Rules and judicial pronouncements on the subject. It shall also go in to the details of various categories of contract personnel, their method of appointment, compliance with rule of reservation and all related issues so as to formulate a scheme for regularization of contract personnel with the approval of Competent Authority," the GO said. (INN)