RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, March 1: Congress MLA Pradeep Yadav today raised the issue of equal pay for equal work in the house and highlighted the issue of exploitation of contract and outsourced workers.
Raising the issue through a call attention notice, Yadav, a former minister of the state, explained regular, contract and daily waged employees get different remuneration for different work though the apex court does not allow the same practice.
When Finance Minister Rameshwar Oraon justified the situation saying contract or outsourced workers are not selected through any competition and the practice has been existing since Bihar days, Yadav took strong exception to the reply saying if the government feels that that appointment is not constitutionally valid why it is not doing a constitutionally valid appointment and the government should explain what restrained it from doing so.
Yadav talking about the exploitation of workers by outsourced companies said the agency pays Rs 8000 for the work which it charges Rs 30000 from the government and that too after they appoint workers taking bribes in online mode. He said that he had also got two FIRs registered in this connection when the matter came into his knowledge in Godda.
Talking about the plight of contract workers, Yadav said while computer operators working at the secretariat get remuneration in accordance with the recommendations of the Seventh pay commission while those working in panchayats are not getting the same remuneration.
The matter came to an end when the finance minister assured proper action in the matter and informed Yadav that a committee has also been constituted for regularization of contract workers in the wake of the Supreme Court order.
Earlier, before the session began the BJP MLAs protested outside the House on the issue of recruitment policy. Carrying placards the BJP MLAs raised slogans demanding employment for youths. BJP chief whip Biranchi Narayan said the report of the survey conducted by the chief minister is a slap on the face of the chief minister as the survey report suggests that youths have justified the recruitment policy of the Raghubar government.
