SHILLONG, APR 1: The Meghalaya cabinet has approved a one-time condonation to recognise promotions of adhoc employees regularised before 2007.
Announcing this after chairing the meeting on Wednesday, Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma said, “(We have discussed) the service conditions of regularized adhoc employees seniority and promotion thereof. As you recall that we had regularized the adhoc appointments pre-2007 and therefore after that a lot of them…were promoted also.”
He said confusion over service records had delayed pensions for some retirees, since the Accountant General needed clarity on whether benefits should be calculated from the original regularised post or the promoted one.
“There was some confusion in that and hence we have decided to regularized those promotion specially those promotion or rather only those promotions which have been made as per the service rules and proper procedures at that point have been followed for these adhoc employees, we will recognize them and give a one time condonation and accordingly the concerned employees will get their salaries as per the promotion.”
“I repeat those promotions which were processed properly and the rules were followed and procedures were followed, for those promotions we will give a condonation and we will allow that promotion to be recognized so that necessary pension can be given on the basis of the promoted post,” Sangma added.
The chief minister recalled that the government had earlier regularised about 3,000 adhoc employees appointed before 2007.
