The Delhi LG VK Saxena ordered the immediate removal of 223 contractual employees from the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW). The Department of Women and Child Development stated that the then chairperson of the DCW, Swati Maliwal, had hired the staffers on contract without the government’s permission and against the rules.
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223 employees from the Delhi Women Commission have been removed with immediate effect on the order of Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena. It is alleged that the then chairperson of the Delhi Women Commission, Swati Maliwal, had appointed them without permission, going against the… pic.twitter.com/wMZmaTuX9l
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Delhi LG Saxena Fires DCW Employees
The order stated that DCW violated the statutory provisions of the DCW Act, 1994, and various standing instructions of the Department of Finance & Planning Department, GNCTD. It created 223 posts and engaged staff without following due procedure. This included not conducting a study to assess the actual requirement of additional staff and eligibility criteria for each post, not obtaining administrative approval and sanctioned expenditure from the GNCTD for engaging such manpower, not formally inviting applications for these posts, not assigning roles and responsibilities for any of these posts, and sharply and arbitrarily enhancing the emoluments of some of the incumbents decided at the time of initial appointment.
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