Bangalore University undecided on regularising daily wage staff

The Syndicate of the Bangalore University on Friday decided to write to the State government seeking directions on regularisation of daily wage employees at the varsity.

Daily wage employees in the varsity have been demanding regularisation of their services for a long time now.

The government had earlier told the university that only those who had completed 10 years of service as on April 2006 could be regularised. Following this guideline, the varsity regularised the services of more than 80 daily wage employees.

The issue came up before the special meeting of the Syndicate on Friday.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, university Vice-Chancellor Prof B Thimme Gowda said the State government had told the varsity that they could provide the employees all the financial and other benefits on a par with those of regular employees but they could not use either “permanent” or “regular” in describing their terms of employment.

The word “continued” could be used for them, he said.

“However, the employees are not satisfied with this and have sought that their employment be regularised. Hence, we have decided to write to the government and seek directions,”  the VC added.

A section of the employees had even approached the court, following which the government was asked to look into the matter.