TS Govt constitutes committee to regularise contract employees

Hyderabad, Aug 13 (INN): 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 eight-member committee will be headed by the Chief Secretary while Secretary of Finance Department will be its Member Convener. Besides the Principal Secretaries of LET&F Dept and HM&FW Dept, the Secretaries of School Education, GA (Ser) and Law Departments will be its members. The committee will 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 Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao.

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

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