Tamil Nadu - Madurai   

Plea to dismiss temporary staff

Staff Reporter

`Appointments were made in flagrant violation of constitution'

MADURAI: A writ petition has been filed in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court to terminate from service temporary employees who were appointed on contract basis to meet the exigency arising out of the mass dismissal of government staff during 2003.

According to the petitioner, V. Sasikumar (28) of Madurai, a physically challenged graduate, the State Government, by its order dated November 29, 2001, imposed a ban on recruitment citing financial reasons. The order dashed the hopes of thousands of educated youth across the State and they had to face a few more years of penury.

Meanwhile, various government employees' unions went on a strike demanding restoration of their service benefits, which were withheld by the State. As a disciplinary action, the Government sacked hundreds of employees en masse from service.

Thereafter, the State hurriedly began a recruitment process through which many people were temporarily appointed on contract basis, he said and added that the appointments were made in flagrant violation of constitutional and statutory obligations. The quota system was conveniently brushed aside and even reservation for women was not followed, he alleged. The petitioner said the recruitment was completed in a short span of time and hence many eligible candidates put up in remote areas could not apply on time. Pointing out that the temporarily appointed employees could have been selected from the waiting or reserved lists of candidates of the previously conducted Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission examinations, he said, the recruitment, instead, was left to the whims and fancies of the recruiting authority. The temporary employees should have been relieved once the regular staff were pardoned and reinstated. Instead, they continued in service and recently the Chief Minister announced that their services would be regularised after conducting a separate special recruitment test, he said.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Truckers sore over new entry timings
Plea to dismiss temporary staff
Double-treat for Madurai
Summary revision of electoral rolls reviewed
Teachers demand `paternity leave'
New B.Tech course
CPI (M) conference to discuss election strategy
Around the City
In Madurai Today
Law & order

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu