Double standards on the 2016 policy of regularizing daily wage earners: Bhopal Collectorate regularized them after 2 years, while the corporation considered the policy dead in one year.

The Bhopal Municipal Corporation and the Collectorate have taken opposing stands on the 2016 policy of making daily wage earners permanent employees (regulated) and later appointing them to vacant Class IV posts. The General Administration Department's circular dated October 7, 2016, had a provision for eligible daily wage earners to be made permanent employees and then appointed to vacant Class IV posts. However, the Bhopal Collectorate issued an order on December 20, 2018, which...