Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has terminated the employment of contractual workers at the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), who were previously appointed by the ex-chief, Swati Maliwal.
Citing the reason, it is alleged that these employees were appointed without taking government’s permission, thus going against the rules.
223 employees from the Delhi Women Commission have been removed with immediate effect on the order of Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. It is alleged that the then chairperson of the Delhi Women Commission, Swati Maliwal, had appointed them without permission, going against the… pic.twitter.com/wMZmaTuX9l
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The statement further declared that due to the irregularities and illegalities in the DCW appointments, all such posts are deemed void or unenforceable (ab-initio), as proper procedures were not adhered to.
Besides, these DCW contractual staff were engaged without having sanctioned posts. This cannot be continued any longer.
“DCW has violated the statutory provisions of DCW Act, 1994 and various standing instructions of the Department of Finance & Planning Department, GNCTD by creating 223 posts and engaging staff without following due procedure i.e. no study was conducted to assess the actual requirement of additional staff and eligibility criteria for each post, no administrative approval and expenditure sanctioned was obtained from the GNCTD for engaging such manpower and applications for such posts were not formally invited, role and responsibility for any of these posts were not assigned and emoluments of some of the incumbents which were decided at the time of initial appointment, were enhanced very sharply and arbitrarily.” the order read.