The Eknath Shinde-led government has overruled the previous government`s decision to hire employees on a contractual basis through outsourcing. It scrapped a government resolution (GR) of the Uddhav Thackeray regime that had empanelled nine private facility agencies for 15 years. Denying the Opposition’s charge that it was hiring hands on contract, the government said the practice was first started by the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) government in 2003.

Hiring is an issue that the Opposition has raised through a protest march of unemployed youth. “The people who are guilty of starting hiring on a contractual basis are now making more noise and misleading the youth. The first such hiring was done by the education department in 2003. The Congress and Sharad Pawar’s NCP were in power then,” said Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also clarified the government’s stand on hiring manpower from the state security corporation for the Mumbai police, which faced a staff crunch.