Punjab cabinet approves regularisation of 36,000 contractual employees

In a major decision to regularize the services of the employees working on contract, adhoc, work charged, daily wages and temporary basis, the Punjab Cabinet on Tuesday approved the ‘The Punjab Protection and Regularization of Contractual Employees Bill-2021’ to be introduced in the forthcoming session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha for enactment.

This decision was taken during a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi at Punjab Bhawan this afternoon.

According to a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office, with this decision, the services of nearly 36,000 aforesaid employees with more than 10 years of service would be regularized.


Likewise, the Cabinet also approved the extra creation of deemed posts.

The provisions of the reservation policy would be followed during the regularization process of these employees. However, this decision of regularization would not be binding on the boards and corporations.