Chandigarh. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday announced that the services of 35,000 contractual and outsourcing employees of Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ in government departments would be regularised. Mann said he has directed Chief Secretary Anirudh Tiwari to prepare a draft bill to regularize the services of employees before the next session of the Assembly.
“We will approve the draft law in the assembly and regularize the employees engaged through contract and outsourcing. This will be a historic decision of the government,” he said in a video message.
Mann said contractual and outsourcing workers have been protesting for a long time for regularization of jobs. “There was no chowk (crossroad) or water tank where they were not protesting,” he said.
He said that there are no teachers in schools, while eligible teachers are protesting by climbing water tanks just outside the institutions for jobs. “There is no need for any job creation for this. We will do that too, but we have to fill the existing jobs first,” he said.
Meanwhile, training guns in the Congress party on the third day of the first session of the assembly, Mann declared March 23, the martyrdom day of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev as a holiday as a tribute to the great.
Responding to Congress’s Giddarbaha MLA Amarinder Singh Raja Waring’s demand to keep all schools and colleges open instead of declaring all schools and colleges as holidays, Mann said that the holiday was declared as a fitting tribute to these great martyrs. Is.
Clarifying the rationale for declaring this day as a state-level holiday, he said that earlier this holiday was declared only locally within the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district, so that people from adjoining areas would visit the martyr memorial in his native village Khatkar Kalan. To pay tribute.
“Now, our government has decided to declare this day as gazetted holiday in the entire state, so that more and more people from across the state can pay homage to the great martyrs including students and teachers in both Khatkar Kalan and Hussainiwala, as these martyrs are celebrated throughout the state. belong to the country and hence cannot be confined to one place.”
Mann, the Leader of the House, asked Waring to give Bhagat Singh’s birthday, to which he failed to answer.
Amazed at this, Mann asked Waring to note that the great martyr Bhagat Singh’s birthday falls on 28 September.
Mann, however, said that his government did this by organizing a series of seminars, symposiums, speech competitions and several other programs in schools, colleges, apart from other educational institutions across the state to make the youth aware of the youth icon’s ideology and philosophy. Plans have been made to celebrate the day in a big way.
—AnyTV News
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