Shillong, Mar 15: In a major relief for hundreds of employees working on ad-hoc basis for decades with the government, the Meghalaya government on Tuesday announced that it has decided to regularise the employees who had been working in sanctioned post but were appointed on an ad-hoc basis.

However, the cut-off date has been set at 2007.

Cabinet today approved the regularisation of employees working in sanctioned posts but appointed on Adhoc basis. The process to regularise 3635 adhoc appointees will be initiated with a cut-off date set at 2007 pic.twitter.com/eWLmGvjFmZ

— Conrad Sangma (@SangmaConrad) March 15, 2022

Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on speaking to reporters here said that this decision came from the ruling of the Supreme Court. “A large number of ad-hoc employees and a onetime provision was given where employees without the District Selection, without MPSC or without any proper procedure or advertisement, or following the different reservation policy, the departments had appointed individuals on an ad-hoc basis against sanction posts. A large number of those people were earlier regularized as a one-time affair but few people were missed out,” he said.

He further said there are 3,635 ad-hoc employees and the procedure for their regularisation will start from the date of the notification and they will be governed by the rules and regulations that are applicable to other government employees.

He further added that the missed out employees are employees who have been working from 1997-98, some even from 1995, and the government has put the cut-off date at 2007.

The Chief Minister also mentioned that it is important to note that this is not for all casual employees. “This is not for all casual employees, not for all ad-hoc employees, or this is not for temporary appointments, this is for individuals who are working against sanctioned post who are already enjoying the pay scale base that a normal employee or a regular employee gets,” he said.