Sourced staff: HC to decide on marks

Hyderabad: A full bench of the Telangana High Court comprising Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan, Justice A. Rajashekher Reddy and Justice P. Naveen Rao will decide whether or not providing weightage marks to outsourced  and contractual  in-service  employees in the  state recruitment is appropriate.

The  full bench  on Thursday began its hearing on petitions challenging the provision of the weightage marks to outsourced employees in the recruitment  of  state power utilities and paramedical posts.

Power utilities like Transco and discoms which recruit their employees through a written and other tests have decided to give 20 marks weightage to outsourced employees who have been working with them for a long time.

While potential employees are opposing the weightage on the ground that this will keep them in a disadvantageous position, inside employees are saying that weightage is a form of justice to them because they have been made to work under a contractor all these years, even though they were performing the duties of permanent staff for years.

Mr. S Satyam Reddy, Senior Counsel representing the petitioners, said that potential employees have to forego their chances of securing a job because some of their contenders were already given 20 marks in a written test that is held for a 100 marks target. The case adjourned to Friday.