Shillong June 3: The KHADC Executive Committee (EC) led by VPP has terminated the service of 13 newly appointed employees and revoked the regularisation of the services of 30 casual employees after they were appointed without any sanctioned posts.
KHADC CEM Shemborlang Rynjah told reporters that the decision was taken based on the report submitted by a committee constituted by the EC for administrative streamlining the functioning of the council.
The committee sat for five times and examined the service of the district council and in the process the appointment of 43 staff came up. Of these 13, were newly appointed and 30 were regularised after appointed as casual workers.
“After examining properly, we found that their appointment was made without any sanctioned posts,” Rynjah said.
“Based on the report submitted by the committee, the EC has decided to discontinue the services of the 13 newly appointed staff and regarding the 30 casual employees, whose services have been regularised, we decided to revoke their regularisation and allow them to continue as casual workers.”
He said the 13 newly appointed staff joined the council in July and December last year as enforcement constables, peons, mali, cleaners etc.
The KHADC is financially unsound, Rynjah said and added that at present, there are more than 70 contractual employees and the payment of salary is being taken care from the five percent administrative charge from the various schemes.
A delegation of the employees affected by the order revoking their regularisation had also met Rynjah urging him to reconsider his decision.
The KHADC chief said that the EC will not revoke its decision and said, “Now, it depends on them whether they want to continue or discontinue as casual workers.”
“We will also continue to take action against those appointments made without any sanctioned posts,” he said.
Rynjah said that the committee for administrative streamlining in the council will also examine the need to amend the service rules.
“We have also decided to constitute a recruitment committee to ensure transparency in job recruitment in the council),” he said.
