India, May 30 -- The Punjab cabinet on Saturday approved a comprehensive roadmap to dismantle the contractual employment system, paving the way for the regularisation of over 65,000 outsourced and temporary workers across 51 government departments.

By eliminating private contractors, the state government aims to establish a direct employer-employee relationship, providing job security and permanent service pathways for thousands of personnel who have spent years serving the state without regular status.

To formalise this transition, the cabinet approved the repeal of the Punjab Ad-hoc, Contractual, Daily Wage, Temporary, Work Charged and Outsourced Employees' Welfare Act, 2016. In its place, the executive cleared two new legislative fra...