In pursuance of the decision of the High Court, the Cabinet has approved the regulation rules. According to this policy, employees serving as ad-hoc and contract workers for 10 years in the state will be able to become regular. Now, along with deciding the cut-off date for those who will benefit from the rules, the Personnel Department will also decide how the rules should be implemented in the current context. This decision of the cabinet of Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has opened the way for regularization of ad-hoc and contract workers who have been working continuously for 10 years in government departments, corporations, councils and autonomous institutions. In the year 2013, the state government had prepared a manual for the regulation of ad-hoc, contract employees working in government departments, corporations, councils and autonomous bodies. A provision was made in this that the employees who could not be regulated under the rules made in the year 2011, would be regulated.
At that time it was said that the state of Uttarakhand came into existence on November 9, 2000 and government departments continued to be formed even after many years, hence the employees posted in them could not get the benefit of the rules of 2011. After this, the government issued revised regularization rules in the year 2016, in which the service period of 10 years was reduced to five years. This was challenged in the High Court, on which the High Court had put a stay on the appointments. Now in this February, the High Court upheld the regularization rules of 2013, in which there is a provision to regulate contract and ad-hoc workers who work for 10 years. In pursuance of this decision of the court, the Personnel Department presented the revised rules on the lines of the regularization rules of the year 2013 before the Cabinet, which was approved by the Cabinet.
