Punjab Cabinet decision bring smiles on faces of teachers and nurses

Chandigarh, March 7: Punjab’s Council of Ministers yesterday regularized the services of only 5,178 teachers with full pay scales from a prospective date, October 1, 2019. However, regularization of services of the remaining category of teachers and employees in other departments, who are over 30,000, has been put off for the time being as the Cabinet decided to constitute an officers’ committee to look into the entire issue.
  

 

Of the 5,178 teachers whose services have been regularised, 5,078 were recruited in the master cadre and 100 as classical and vernacular teachers by the Department in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

The services of the teachers recruited during 2014, 2015 and 2016 would be regularised at full scale on completion of their two-year probation, reducing the probation period from three years to two years.

The committee has been asked to submit its report in the next 90 days to Cabinet sub-committee on regularisation of employees, attracting an adverse reaction from employees’ leaders who dismissed today’s Cabinet decision as time-buying tactics by the Congress government.

2- Contractual nurses had been agitating for some time for regularisation of services at basic pay. The Cabinet has also regularised service of 650 nurses of the Health Department as per the department’s probation rules.

3- The Cabinet approved an amendment to the GST incentives notified under the Industrial and Business Development Policy-2017 to enable industrial units to choose between Net GST incentives or incentivised SGST on intra-state sale.