Suvendu questions govt’s move to hire contractual employees in Home Dept

The state government recently issued a notification for the appointment of five consultants and five junior consultants on contract to the Department of Home and Hill Affairs.

The BJP MLA from Nandigram further questioned as why the state government was going for contractual employment for such a sensitive department by bypassing the West Bengal Public Service Commission (WBPSC) and that too at a time when several posts for permanent government staff are lying vacant there.

In the same notification, the state government said that it would also recruit 10 contractual data entry operators for the Department of Information Technology and Electronics. Adhikari pointed out that the government was offering pay scales that are higher than that for equivalent posts. Adhikari claimed that Webel Technology Limited, a state government undertaking, recruited over 2,900 similar contractual data entry operators for various departments across the state at a fixed salary of Rs 13,000. “I demand that Rs 25,000 should be paid to all such contractual data entry operators in different departments,” he added.