27% of government staff are on contract
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Successive governments since the Chandrababu Naidu regime have encouraged outsourcing to cut expenditure on salaries and pensions that need to be paid to regular employees.
There was, in fact, a ban on government recruitment during Mr Naidu’s tenure due to a “financial crisis”.
Though the government initiated a recruitment process during YSR’s tenure, it was done in a limited way and did not match the huge vacancies that arose every year on account of retirement of existing employees.
Successive governments have thus largely depended on outsourced staff for day-to-day administrative activities and incurred relatively lower expenditures towards salaries.
There are a large number of vacancies following the retirement of employees since 2006, when the government had collected data on the number of employees working in various departments.
As per the data, the total employees working in government departments were 10,20,213. Of them, 7,48,063 were regular employees (73 per cent), while 2,72,150 were on contract (27 per cent).
Barring teachers and police recruitments, which were conducted on a massive scale since 2006, recruitment in other departments have been limited.
Meanwhile, a large number of existing employees, estimated to be around 3 lakh, retired from service and these posts were largely filled by contract staff for meagre salaries.
The huge increase in contract staff has also led to “insecurity” among regular employees. Whenever regular employees resort to strikes, the government uses contract employees to do their work.
Even during the 42-day long Sakala Janula Samme last year, the government had ensured normal activities with the help of contract staff.
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