HC seeks details on regularisation of contract employees
The High Court at Hyderabad on Tuesday asked for details of the process by which the State of Telangana undertook the process of regularisation of contract employees when they were not recruited through proper recruitment procedure. It directed the government to come with these details in a day and posted the matter to Wednesday.
​Hyderabad: The High Court at Hyderabad on Tuesday asked for details of the process by which the State of Telangana undertook the process of regularisation of contract employees when they were not recruited through proper recruitment procedure. It directed the government to come with these details in a day and posted the matter to Wednesday.
The bench of Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Shameem Akther gave this direction while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) petition filed by J Shankar Rao and another from Karimnagar who questioned the large-scale regularisation of services of contract employees being done by the government. S Satyam Reddy, senior counsel, appearing for the petitioners, told the court that the exercise undertaken by the State of Telangana was illegal because the contract employees were not recruited by following statutory norms.
He pointed out that earlier, in a separate case, the State government gave an undertaking in the court that it would not further regularise contract employees. The court too had directed it not to proceed further. The counsel said the regularisation spree was continuing unabated even today and the State was maintaining secrecy by not putting in public domain the G.O.s concerning these regularisations.
The bench questioned Telangana Advocate General K Ramakrishna Reddy as to how the State is regularising the services of contract employees who were appointed without any proper selection process. The AG sought time to take instructions from the government and the bench posted the case to Wednesday for further hearing.
