10. TEMPORARY JOBS TO BE MADE PERMANENT

10.

 TEMPORARY JOBS TO BE MADE PERMANENT

80% people working in Delhi are in the unorganised sector. These include construction workers, rag pickers, domestic workers, security guards, street vendors, etc.

There are around 1lakh temporary (conceptual) workers including doctors, teachers and managerial level employees in various government departments. These people have been on temporary jobs for many years as they were considered ‘the cheaper option’. In DTC (transport department), there are many conductors and drivers on contract. At Delhi Metro Rail too most employees are on contract or have been outsourced. AAP promised to resolve the legitimate grievances of DTC employees.

These temporary workers are asked to sign that they have been given Rs.10,000/- while they are actually given only Rs.6,0000/- Many of these workers have been working for more than 10 to 20 years on contract basis. There is complete exploitation going on. The middle men take the money. AAP is of the view that these middle men must be removed.

These temporary employees do not get the allowances and benefits such as house rent, provident fund, government schemes and pension like permanent employees. These employees are in a permanent fear of being removed. The promise of AAP to make their jobs permanent comes as a boon to them.

AAP promised to see that no contractual employment will be allowed against posts that require all year round work. Only in temporary work like construction, contractual labour will be allowed. But the working condition of these workers will be improved and minimum wages will be paid. Their working hours will be regulated and weekly holidays will be provided. Provision of social security will be initiated along the lines of

The Labour Department will be restructured to ensure better transparency and accountability. AAP also promised to pressurise the Central government to change the labour-unfriendly provisions in the Contract Labour Act of 1970.

WORK DONE IN DELHI REGARDING MAKING TEMPORARY JOBS PERMANENT

Kejriwal constituted a high-level committee to formulate policies and guidelines to make all conceptual posts in Delhi government permanent. The Delhi government also put a stop on the removal of temporary employees working in various departments till the process or recruitment according to the new criteria is completed.

The high-level committee had 13 members headed by Chief Secretary S.K.Srivastava. It comprised of two retired IAS officers, secretaries or finance, law and urban development departments. The committee will consider all the legal and technical aspects into account to formulate a policy to finalise the recruitment process. Kejriwal said that this process will take one month and till then no conceptual worker will be removed from job. The recruitment process will take place taking into account the age, work experience and skill of the worker. Work has already started to collect information about the contract workers.