Shillong, Jan 11: The state government has regularised the services of 850 plus employees appointed on ad hoc basis against sanctioned posts.
The year’s first cabinet meeting held at Sohra on Friday gave the much-awaited approval to the proposal for regularisation of services of the employees.
Services of over 3,000 ad hoc employees, who were appointed before 2007, were regularised in 2022 in pursuant to a Supreme Court directive.
“There were still about 800 or 850 people as per our list, who were missed out during the approval given by the cabinet (in 2022)…So the government today decided to regularise their appointments,” chief minister Conrad K Sangma said after the cabinet meeting.
However, he said, there would be no financial impact in terms of salaries since these employees were appointed on an adhoc basis against the sanctioned posts and were receiving their salary at scale.
“Ad hoc appointments were against the sanctioned post and hence the money is already going to them,” he said.
Upon regularisation, these employees will get pension benefits in the future.
“There are seven (such employees) who have even passed away, but the pension benefits will be given to them. This is the beauty of this decision,” Sangma added.
Referring to the Supreme Court order, he said, “Ad hoc appointments are not legal, technically speaking, and hence we have informed all the departments that this cannot happen in the future.”
