(a) the number of seasonal Khalasis working in every monsoon season under Central Water Commission field offices throughout the country;
(b) the total payment made to the seasonal Khalasis in the
monsoon season;
(c) whether there any proposal to absorb all the seasonal
Khalasis on regular employment; and
(d) if not, the reasons therefore?
THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES
(SMT. BIJOYA CHAKRAVARTY)
(a) The number of seasonal khalasis engaged in the
workcharged establishment of the Central Water Commission in
every monsoon season is not fixed, but varies with the number
and nature of requirement of data collection schemes in
operation. In flood season of 1999, that is June to October,
1999, 1712 seasonal khalasis were employed.
(b) Information is being collected and will be laid on the
table of the House.
(c) There is a scheme called “Grant of Temporary Status and
Regularisation of Seasonal Khalasis in the Workcharged
Establishment of the CWC, 1997†which is effective from
1.6.1997. This Scheme, inter alia, provides for grant of
temporary status to the seasonal khalasis working in Central
Water Commission and fulfilling the terms and conditions as on
1.6.1997, as stipulated in the Scheme, and their regularisation
in the workcharged establishment of the CWC subject to the
availability of vacancies and on seniority-cum-fitness basis as
per procedure laid down in the Scheme.
(d) Does not arise.