By IANS,
New Delhi : The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Monday informed the Delhi High Court that it will take back 799 sacked employees of the Hardayal Municipal Public Library and its 31 branches across the city.
On June 25, the civic body struck off 799 library employees from its rolls following the recommendation of an inquiry commission looking into alleged irregularities in their appointments.
Soon after their termination, around 400 protesters barged into the Town Hall premises here, damaged the mayor’s car and smashed window panes of the heritage structure by throwing flower pots and stones.
Counsel Venu Gopal said before Justice Siddharth Mridul that MCD will withdraw the decision to terminate the employees and shall make a copy of the inquiry report available to all of them.
The court was hearing a plea filed by 111 sacked employees seeking quashing of their termination and payment of outstanding salary since April 2007 with interest.
After MCD’s stand, the court disposed off the petition saying: “Nothing further needs to be decided and petition has become infructuous.”
However, the court granted liberty to MCD to further pass an order on the inquiry report in accordance with law.
The employees were sacked after G.P. Thareja committee said that appointments made were “illegal and void”.
According to Thareja’s report, the posts for 799 employees were not there but had been created afresh. It also noted that there was no budgetary provision to finance their salaries.
The report also said there was no proper scrutiny of applications before selecting the candidates for the job.