Lucknow High Court Strict For Contract Workers Hiring Asks State For Last Time – Lucknow: State Government gets last chance in case of ban on recruitment of contractual workers, hearing on 7

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The Lucknow bench of the Lucknow High Court has taken a stern stance on the non-submission of a counter affidavit (clarification) of the state government in the matter of prohibiting the recruitment of contractual personnel from outsourcing. At the same time, despite several earlier orders, the Chief Secretary Revenue and Principal Secretary appeared in the Finance Court on Friday in the matter of non-response.

The court has fixed the next hearing on January 7, giving two weeks' time as the last chance to file an answer at the request of the public prosecutor. The order was passed by a division bench of Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice Vikas Kunwar Srivastava, with service provider M / s RMS Techno Solutions Pvt. Delivered on the petition of In this, the petitioner challenged the order of 25 October under which his registration as a service provider was canceled without assigning any reason.

On 20 November, the court asked the contract workers to issue government work Taking strict cognizance of, the state government had prohibited the recruitment of contract workers from outsourcing to regular sanctioned posts till the state's response came. At the same time, the government had asked for clarification as to why the sanctioned posts are not being filled regularly.

In response, the government lawyer said that not only the petitioner's registration but also all such service providers were canceled. Is so that a clean policy can be formulated to take people through service providers. On this, the counsel for the petitioner gave details of the positions on which the contractual personnel are employed.

He said that although it is against the rules to fill the sanctioned posts, the practice of ad hoc recruitment should be abolished under a Nazir. The court said that recently the Supreme Court has commented on this arrangement that the government should not run through contract workers. In view of this, the court had banned the recruitment of contract workers from outsourcing after taking cognizance of the issue raised in the petition.

During the hearing on Friday, the court was told that despite the interim order of stay, the government was filling the post of contractual workers by outsourcing. On this, the court said that if it is so, it is contempt of the officer concerned.

If the restraining order is violated, contempt proceedings will be taken against the officer concerned. In such a situation, the government should also file an affidavit that no post has been filled after the order

banning the recruitment of contractual personnel from outsourcing.

The court has fixed the next hearing on January 7, giving two weeks' time as the last chance to file an answer at the request of the public prosecutor. The order was passed by a division bench of Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice Vikas Kunwar Srivastava, with service provider M / s RMS Techno Solutions Pvt. Delivered on the petition of In this, the petitioner had challenged the order of October 25 under which his registration as a service provider was canceled without assigning any reason.

On 20 November, the court gave strict cognizance of the issue of running government work from contract workers. But till the response of the state government came, the recruitment of contract personnel was banned from outsourcing to regular sanctioned posts. At the same time, the government had asked for clarification as to why the sanctioned posts are not being filled regularly.