High Court : Not to regularize the services of contract employees

Hyderabad April 27: The High Court directed the Telangana govt," not to regularize the services of contract employees who were appointed after April 10, 1996" they said here on Wednesday.

While going to details, Declaring that regularisation of contract employees by the govt had to be in consonance with the Supreme Court judgment in the case of the State of Karnataka vs Uma Devi, the High Court bench made it clear that only those contract employees, who were appointed prior to April 10, 1996, and have completed 10 years of service, were eligible for regularisation.

The bench of Acting Chief Justice Ramesh Ranganathan and Justice Shameem Akther passed this interim order on a PIL filed by J Shankar Rao and another person from Karimnagar urging the court to declare as unconstitutional the government’s act of regularizing contract employees.



During the course of hearing, state advocate-general K Ramakrishna Reddy said that the govt had been regularizing the services of contract employees who were appointed in the erstwhile combined state of AP in various departments and had been rendering service for the past five to 10 years.

The services of contract employees are regularized based on their qualifications and eligibility to the post which they hold. The government has constituted a panel which had recommended regularization of services of the contract employees, he explained