CITU President Vijendra Mehra termed decision of state government to merged outsourced employees with Himachal Skill Development as a joke
CITU State Committee Himachal Pradesh has termed the decision of the state government to merge the outsourced employees with Himachal Pradesh Skill Development and Employment Corporation as a lewd joke with the outsourced workers and termed it as an exploitative system. CITU has warned the state government that it should stop throwing dust in the eyes of forty thousand outsourced employees and make a concrete policy for them and give them the status of regular government employees.
CITU State President Vijendra Mehra and General Secretary Prem Gautam have termed the decision of the cabinet of the state government as an eye wash in the context of outsourced personnel. He said that in the CITU State Conference to be held in Mandi on 1st – 2nd October, the strategy of agitation against this eye wash of the government would be chalked out. He said that this arrangement has been made on the lines of Haryana Government, where even after the formation of such a corporation, the exploitation of outsourced workers continues unabated and they are not getting facilities on the lines of government employees. The outsourced personnel of Himachal Pradesh and the CITU State Committee completely reject such a system. After the formation of this corporation, most of the outsourced workers of the state, unskilled laborers will be left out of the purview of this corporation. Even the skilled workers who will come under the purview of this corporation, they will also not be able to get the facilities on the lines of a government employee. Earlier these workers were working through private contractors, now they will be directly under government contracting system or corporate system and will remain under contractual, outsourced system and corporation throughout their life. They will never be regular. They will never get facilities like a government employee. They will not even get salary equal to that of government employees. They will never be entitled to become government employees. The decision of the state government is only to catch the outsourced workers rattled and there is nothing other than this. The government wants to use the outsourced workers on the eve of elections by duping them and extorting votes from them. Outsourced workers have been fighting for many years to become government employees. Their struggle was not to be subordinated to a government corporation but to regularize. If the state government is really serious about these employees, then it should cancel the notification of merging them in the corporation and declare them as government employees.