Service Act 2011 in Back Burner?

      Mr. Nitish Kumar, Chief Minster of Bihar has done lost of impressive work in his state, hence become motivation to other states of the country and even to Central Government as few states and central government has follow his footprints in some of there works after modification. Punjab State Government has cleared the Service Act 2011 Bill in the Punjab Assembly, but its becoming buzz among peoples of the state as it is creating the atmosphere of frustration among aspirants youth to join government departments, due to score of proposals which are anti government employees, like-

• Now new government recruitment will get only basic salary
• They will not be entitle for bonus or perks like permanent government employees for the period of three years from there appointment
• Hence there service during three years phase will be temporary in nature
• Still its not guarantee that there status will be turns into permanent after completion of three years period, even they are bound that his/her service will be terminated if any complaints lodge against them
• Maternal and other leave of women cuts drastically
• This act appears and promotes contract system by state government

It will encourage youth of the state to make distance from state government jobs as they will get only basic salary nothing else, along with it sword hanging on to there head of termination and after period of three years its not sure that they will become permanent government employees, so considering the above mentioned possibilities its appeared that state government has put this bill into back burner for the time being draft was sent to get the legal opinion and they get back from the forwarded with remarks that it is better to get the view of the concerned departments where it is going to implement, and concerned state government departments response is till date pending except one department which responded and categorically coded that they are already facing problem of shortage of employees, in this scenario its not possible and recommended to go ahead with this bill, moreover Right To Information Act and Service Act 2011 together will make employees to work in tough environment, thus they will come under tremendous physical and mental pressure and its not good by any mean. As per information it will take six months period, due to its journey to Chief Minister, Cabinet and Governor for there nods on to bill. Government employees recruited after 5th April,2011 are entitle for basic Salary only, they wont get any allowances even dearness allowance which is not possible for anybody to work, its impact is visible as one employee working at Punjab Secretariat has forward his resignation and other from Public Relation department’s information officer tender his resignation due to there recruitment was after 5th April,2011 and they were entitled for basic salary of 10,000 rupees instead of 35,000 to 40,000 rupees per month. State Government had received proposal from different government departments of state requirement of thirty thousand employees but state government was able to recruit only eight thousand employees that is also on less salary packages’.
    Claims of Deputy Chief Minister of state that financial status of government is much more improve, but there recent action is pointing there claims have no grounds when time comes to recruit fresh government employees in the scenario of inflation with only basic pay scale without any allowances, are not rosy for young government job seekers in the state.