No Recruitment in SGPC to Replace 523 Dismissed Employees till February-2019
Posted: 22 Aug 2018 09:47 AM PDTCHANDIGARH—The ban imposed by the Punjab & Haryana High Court on May 18 on the fresh recruitment in place of dismissed employees will continue till February next year. Notably, the SGPC’s executive committee headed by S. Gobind Singh Longowal had dismissed 523 employees recruited during the tenure of preceding president Prof. Kirpal Singh Badungar and some of them had approached the High Court against this decision in April this year.
Sources have informed that the petition is not being processed as the entertaining Judge Jaswant Singh is on leave. It is learnt that the next hearing on the case has been deferred to February next year.
During the last hearing, the petitioner’s lawyer had informed the Court that the dismissed employees weren’t presented any reason by the SGPC for terminating them while adding that the serving SGPC executive had presented an excuse in a press statement that these employees were recruited without giving any advertisement in the newspapers however the SGPC’s service norms permit the executive committee to directly recruit temporary employees with a monthly salary less than 10000. 
The petitioner’s lawyer had further claimed before the Court that there was no provision in law for recruiting new employees on contract by terminating the existing ones without any reason.
Agreeing with the contentions of the petitioner’s lawyer, the Punjab & Haryana High Court had served a notice to the serving SGPC’s executive committee seeking reply on the issue.