SO WHY THE CONFUSION TODAY?
GANGTOK, 07 Nov: While the state employee census is underway on the direction of the Central government through the 13th Finance Commission that the state conduct a state employee census to ascertain the exact number of persons on the payroll of the state exchequer the High Court of Sikkim had earlier sought from the government the number of temporary employees working with the government to which the state, it was observed, had no satisfactory answer.
However 3 to 4 months the Department of Personnel, as a follow up to another but similar query posed by the court replied that the state had 9823 temporary employees most of them not in duly sanctioned posts. Following such a submission it is surprising as well as confusing that the concerned departments are not able to provide accurate figures of the number of temporary employees engaged by them for the purposes of the employee census. It had been reported in yesterday’s edition of the paper that while the number of regular employees were not much of an issue DESME, the agency conducting the census, was having difficulty with the figures for temporary employees as the concerned departments themselves were not certain about it.
The query of the high court was in relation to a different but similar petitions filed 18 persons between 2009 and 2010. All the petitioners were either Muster Roll or Work Charged employees with one a retired MR employee and all had been languishing in temporary capacities without security of their tenure of services for periods varying from 20 to 42 years. They had approached the court to direct the state to provide reasonable reliefs in the form of regularization of their services in order to enable them to enjoy the benefits of after retirement emoluments.
In the course of the hearing of the petition the judgment of which as issued in August, 2011, the high court had posed a number of queries to the state including one which asked the government whether there had been any exercise to find out how many workers / employees were working under the state government in temporary capacities either as MR, WC or ad hoc etc. The court had also sought to know the number of persons who had been appointed by the HRDD to posts equivalent to that of the petitioners in one particular case during the last 10 years. That particular petitioner had been jointly filed by 12 HRDD personnel who had initially been appointed on MR basis and later brought in the ad hoc category with consolidated salary.
The answers to the various queries put by the high court were submitted on 21 August, 2010 by the DoP to the court which in its judgment observed that “…it is noticed that the answers to the queries are not satisfactory but quite vague except for the answers to the questions (c) and (d). The latter two queries related to schemes of the government for regularization of their services and their implementation.
However, a few months later when the high court put a similar query to the state respondents in another similar petition it was submitted by the Department of Personnel that “…the total number of temporary employees working in the government of Sikkim as on 1st October, 2010 are 9823. It was also submitted by the department that most of the 9823 employees were not appointed in duly sanctioned posts. Under the scheme providing for 50% reservation in vacancies for temporary employees and other relaxations introduced by the state a total of 195 temporary employees had been brought under regular establishment, it was also submitted. This information was provided to the court on 18 November, 2010.
GANGTOK, 07 Nov: While the state employee census is underway on the direction of the Central government through the 13th Finance Commission that the state conduct a state employee census to ascertain the exact number of persons on the payroll of the state exchequer the High Court of Sikkim had earlier sought from the government the number of temporary employees working with the government to which the state, it was observed, had no satisfactory answer.
However 3 to 4 months the Department of Personnel, as a follow up to another but similar query posed by the court replied that the state had 9823 temporary employees most of them not in duly sanctioned posts. Following such a submission it is surprising as well as confusing that the concerned departments are not able to provide accurate figures of the number of temporary employees engaged by them for the purposes of the employee census. It had been reported in yesterday’s edition of the paper that while the number of regular employees were not much of an issue DESME, the agency conducting the census, was having difficulty with the figures for temporary employees as the concerned departments themselves were not certain about it.
The query of the high court was in relation to a different but similar petitions filed 18 persons between 2009 and 2010. All the petitioners were either Muster Roll or Work Charged employees with one a retired MR employee and all had been languishing in temporary capacities without security of their tenure of services for periods varying from 20 to 42 years. They had approached the court to direct the state to provide reasonable reliefs in the form of regularization of their services in order to enable them to enjoy the benefits of after retirement emoluments.
In the course of the hearing of the petition the judgment of which as issued in August, 2011, the high court had posed a number of queries to the state including one which asked the government whether there had been any exercise to find out how many workers / employees were working under the state government in temporary capacities either as MR, WC or ad hoc etc. The court had also sought to know the number of persons who had been appointed by the HRDD to posts equivalent to that of the petitioners in one particular case during the last 10 years. That particular petitioner had been jointly filed by 12 HRDD personnel who had initially been appointed on MR basis and later brought in the ad hoc category with consolidated salary.
The answers to the various queries put by the high court were submitted on 21 August, 2010 by the DoP to the court which in its judgment observed that “…it is noticed that the answers to the queries are not satisfactory but quite vague except for the answers to the questions (c) and (d). The latter two queries related to schemes of the government for regularization of their services and their implementation.
However, a few months later when the high court put a similar query to the state respondents in another similar petition it was submitted by the Department of Personnel that “…the total number of temporary employees working in the government of Sikkim as on 1st October, 2010 are 9823. It was also submitted by the department that most of the 9823 employees were not appointed in duly sanctioned posts. Under the scheme providing for 50% reservation in vacancies for temporary employees and other relaxations introduced by the state a total of 195 temporary employees had been brought under regular establishment, it was also submitted. This information was provided to the court on 18 November, 2010.
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