56213 DRWs regularized: Rather

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 12: Minister for Finance and Ladakh Affairs, Abdul Rahim Rather informed the Assembly that no regularization policy has been formulated for casual workers, as yet. He said, however, the Government has constitute a Cabinet Sub-Committee to go into the extent/magnitude of the problem relating to casual workers to see financial, legal and administrative issues that may arise in the regularization of such temporary workers and work out and appropriate policy in this regard.
Replying to a question by Charan Jeet Singh today in the House, the Finance Minister said that as regards daily rated workers who have completed seven year continuous service upto March 13, 1994 have to be regularized from April 1, 1994.
The Finance Minister informed that the same policy of regularization is applicable to all daily rate workers/ work charge employees as existed in the Government departments/PSUs/Autonomous bodies on January 31, 1994.
The Finance Minister informed that out of 59594 daily rated Workers  56213 stand regularized upto January 31, 2014, leaving a balance of 3381 daily rated worker yet to be regularized. He said this being a continuous process, all the daily rated workers/work charge employees who have been engaged prior to cut off date of January 31, 1994 and form part of the registered figure of daily rated workers, but have not been regularized so far would be considered for regularization as and when the requisite proposal, complete in all respects, are received in the Finance Department.