Aizawl: Thousands of provisional employees formerly known as “muster roll employees” under the Mizoram government will go on mass casual leave for two days from Thursday citing failure on the part of the government to regularise them.
Provision Employee’s Association of Mizoram (PEAM), the association representing all provisional employees in the state, said it was decided that the employees will go on mass casual leave as the state government is yet to lift the ban imposed by way of austerity measures issued on February 2020, which hindered the provisional employees from being regularised.
All provisional employees working in different departments will go on mass casual leave on February 17 and February 18, the association said in a statement.
The association also alleged that the government has failed to take measures for the implementation of National Pension System (NPS) for the employees.
Casual leave will be taken as per an official gazette notification issued in March 2020, it said.
Sources said there are more than 9,000 provisional employees working under various departments in the posts of group ‘C’ and ‘D.’
The provisional employees were hitherto called muster roll employees until the state cabinet headed by Chief Minister Zoramthanga decided to name them “provisional employees” in February 2020.
The state cabinet in February 2020 had also approved the new rules governing the provisional employees, which were later notified.
According to the new rules, the remuneration of the provisional employees, who were earlier given under Minimum Wages Act, was increased by 4 per cent from their basic pay.
The employees are entitled to travel allowance (TA) or daily allowance and transfer TA, which they did not enjoy earlier. The new rules also said that maternity leave to the extent of 26 weeks is permissible to women employees till giving second birth and seven days paternity leave to male employees.
The employees are also allowed for 4 days casual leave.
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