It has been more than two months since the casual employees under the banner of the All North Eastern Hill University Workers’ Union have been agitating outside the VC chamber due to the failure of the university authority to regularise their services.
Meanwhile North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) vice-chancellor Prabha Shankar Shukla on Wednesday said the university will submit a proposal on the regularisation of the service of casual workers to the Union Ministry of Education.He also informs that it is up to the ministry to take a call on the regularisation of the service of the employees and that the university cannot take such decisions.
Merely serving 10 years as a contractual employee may not be sufficient for regularisation of service, he added.
According to P S Shukla, the university has already implemented central minimum wages salary for all the casual workers in different categories since 2018.
There are more than 700 contractual employees working on both the Shillong and Tura campuses of the university. Napolean Mawphniang , President of the Union had said that they are demanding regularizing the services of the contractual employees and to implement the equal pay for equal work.
