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The government’s move to regularise services of daily-rated workers will benefit at least nine categories of such appointees, the finance minister Haseeb Drabu said on Thursday and called the move as “significant.”
The government’s move to regularise services of daily-rated workers will benefit at least nine categories of such appointees, the finance minister Haseeb Drabu said on Thursday and called the move as “significant.”
Two days after Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti announced that her government will regularise 60,000 casual labourers, Drabu said that the beneficiaries will also include daily-rated, casual, seasonal, HDF and local fund workers, NYCs, land donors, SPOs and ad-hoc/contractual appointees left-out under the J&K Civil Services (special provisions) Act 2010 for want of eligibility criteria.
The government has firmed up the process for regularising their services and the formal orders in this regard are is likely to be issued “soon” by the finance department, Drabu said.
He said that on the basis of their educational, technical and professional profiles, these workers have been categorised as skilled and non-skilled for regularisation and remuneration.
“They will be additionally entitled to all financial and service benefits including annual pay hike, pension under NPS, leave and medical reimbursement, periodical hike in remuneration akin to pay commission, maintenance of service records and will also be covered under work, conduct and discipline rules, including retirement,” a finance department official said in a statement.
Drabu said that following the initiative of the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, the government has already approved the roadmap for bringing the daily-wagers on the rolls of the government and the formal SRO in this regard will be issued by the finance department within a couple of days.
Although skilled and unskilled workers are to be put in different scales of remuneration, it will correspondingly increase on the basis of their length of engagement, the finance minister said.
Regarding the number of workers to be benefitted by the regularisation scheme, the finance department official said that although various figures are being projected, the exact number will be determined and finalised through bio-metric verification of every such worker.
The highest number of such workers is engaged in PHE department followed by power development department, school education department, public works department, irrigation and flood control department, forest department, health and medical education department, agriculture department, housing and urban development department, tourism department, animal husbandry department and fisheries department. There are also such workers in other departments who will benefit from the regularisation scheme, Drabu said.
He said that during the last budget session, the government made a commitment on the floor of the legislature that the process for regularisation of casual workers of various categories will start from the next financial year in terms of the set guidelines and criteria.
Pertinently, the state cabinet had, on October 23 this year, accepted the roadmap prepared by the high-level committee headed by the chief secretary for absorption/regularisation of casual/seasonal labourers/daily-rated workers to ensure sustainable livelihood to hundreds of such workers engaged over a period of several years.
The cabinet had asked the Finance department to draft and issue the formal orders for operationalisation of the roadmap.
Drabu said that a policy enshrined in SRO-64 of 1994 for regularisation of daily-rated workers/work-charged employees engaged prior to cut-off date of January 31, 1994 is already in place from the date of issuance of the SRO-64.
He said an empowered committee meets at regular intervals and will continue to meet till last one of the adhoc/contractual appointees, eligible and registered with the finance department, is cleared for regularisation, if eligible, in terms of the J&K Civil Services (special provisions) Act-2010.
Drabu said the government is also taking a holistic review of SRO-202 which was issued on 30th June 2015, according to which the appointees in non-gazetted cadre are entitled to basic minimum pay and grade pay during the first five years of the service.
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