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Termination of thousands en
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IT was shocking to read the sacking of thousands of employees in Punjab
and this exercise is expected to be followed in other Provinces and may
be at the Centre as well. Of course they were either on contract or
re-employed and some of them might have been appointed by the previous
Government on political considerations but majority of them were
contributing their bit and earning livelihood for their families.
Although the culture of contractual employment is not in line with the
normal practice of recruitment and without sufficient reasons this
should be avoided yet when people were put on jobs by a Government, they
deserved a fair opportunity to prove themselves fit for the job and just
with a stroke of a pen and without giving sufficient reasons such a
drastic action should have been avoided. When one Government appoints
somebody and the next removes him, it upsets the entire system and
creates uncertainty. The action has affected thousands of families who
are left with no source of income and thus created a bitterness and the
bureaucracy as a whole is demoralised. Therefore, we urge the Government
in waiting in Punjab to give a sympathetic consideration to the cases of
those removed and those fulfilling the requirements be reinstated.
