UD&HD begins work on regularization of MR employees

197 MR EMPLOYEES SELECTED, DEPTT IN PROCESS OF SCRUTINIZING DOCUMENTS
GANGTOK, 14 Aug: The Urban Development and Housing department (UD&HD) has notified a policy to initiate immediate examination [for regulation of services] of cases of employees working on Muster Roll Service and having completed 10 years and more of service in the department with immediate effect.
A total of 197 employees working on MR have been selected under this category and now the department is in the process of scrutinizing their documents to verify their eligibility.
This initiative, it  is informed is aimed at providing the deserving employees the much needed financial and other departmental benefits which should inspire them to work with more zeal and enthusiasm in the coming days.
The UD&HD, it may be recalled, had constituted a committee headed by the Additional Secretary as chairman and six other officers which include the Joint Secretary-I, Chief Accounts Officer, Divisional Engineer (Planning), Town Planner cum Sr.Architect as members and the Deputy Secretary-I as member secretary.
The committee is examining the length of service rendered by each MR employee along with their performance while also reviewing the actual requirement of staff in each section and is recommending further requirement, relocation of excess manpower to other departments.
 “We have already started the process and have already brought many of the employees under Work Charge. I want to specify that regularization of these employees will definitely take a long time since there is a process put in place by the state government. However, keeping in view the need to boost this manpower, they will be given all monetary benefits under work-charge which is almost equal to that of a regular employee,” stated the Additional Secretary, UD&HD, LB Chettri.
While informing that this process will now be an annual affair within the department, he said that under the 197 employees, 81 were safai karamcharis, 84 were labourers, 11 were masons, 5 were chowkidars, 7 were peons and 9 were LDCs.
The Additional Secretary further informed that however, the actual seniority of some of the supervisors who fell under this category has been identified as a constraining factor for all the employees to be cleared for WC.
“We want to confirm first if the case of the employee is genuine before they are made eligible which is why many of the files are still under scrutiny. These 197 are in the list but all of them are still not selected as eligible. Since this is a welfare initiative of the department and the state government we want to make sure that the deserving people are selected. Usually this is a category of employees which are often overlooked in such matters which is why we have initiated the same,” stated the Additional Secretary.