Chandigarh, July 29 -- The Punjab government has decided to regularise the services of contractual sanitation workers who have completed five years of service, minister Harjot Singh Bains said on Tuesday evening.

He further said the government has also decided to bring outsourced sanitation workers with three years of continuous service under direct contracts.

The announcement came amid some of the unions of sanitation workers still remain on strike.

Sharing details of the meeting held here, Bains said the government has approved the immediate conversion of 'Safai Sevaks' working on outsourcing in Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats who have completed three years of service into direct contractual employees....