Friday, March 9, 2012

1802 Adhoc Contractual Workers Regularised

Minister of State for Finance Dr. Manohar Lal informed the Upper House that till date the Empowered Committee (EC) has recommended 1802 cases out of 6850 to different Administrative Departments for their regularization.

He said 6850 cases of employees of Adhoc, contractual, consolidated basis were recorded by the Finance Department as per the information received from various departments for their regularization under Special Provision Act 2010.

The Minister was replying to a clubbed question of Javid Ahmad Rana and Syed Asgar Ali in the Legislative Council today.

Regarding casual labourers, the minister said the information received from various departments, 19384 casual labours were reported to be existing in different department upto ending December 2011. He said in this respect, the Government has constituted a Cabinet Sub-Committee. He said the concerned health departments were advised to furnished full details of these engagements so as to enable the committee to go into the extent/magnitude of the problems relating to the casual workers i.e financial, legal and administrative that may arise in the regularization of such temporary workers and workout an appropriate policy in this regard.

He said since the departments furnished inadequate information, they were again requested to furnish the references of officers who engaged these casual labourers which is still awaited. He said as soon as, the relevant information is received on the subject, the Cabinet Sub-Committee is expected to deliberate upon the issue and finalize its recommendations. He said against the total number of 59105 daily wagers, a balance of 3501 daily wagers still exists in the records of the Finance Department as un-regularized.

Dr. Manohar Lal also informed the House that 457 industrial units have been identified as sick in the State which includes 368 units indentified in Kashmir region and 89 in Jammu.

Replying to a question of Sheikh Ghulam Rasool, the Minister said under Rehabilitation Policy for sick industrial units, the industrial units which have been declared sick by State Level Rehabilitation Committee (SLRC) and are potentially education viable have been given soft loan at the rate of 1% interest per annum subject to maximum of ` 30 lakh. He said ` 69.42 lakh have been sanctioned for Jammu region under the scheme out of which ` 5.50 lakh have been disbursed till ending January 2012. Similarly, ` 801.31 Lakhs have been sanctioned for Kashmir region out of which ` 364.07 lakh stands disbursed during the same period, he added.

To revitalize industrial activities in the State, Dr Lal said that Prime Minister's Task Force on MSME has recommended setting up of a fund of ` 100 crore by the Government of India for implementing a special rehabilitation package for identified sick units in J&K.

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