MP High Court halts transfer termination of ‘Rozgar Sahayak’:HC seeks reply in 4 weeks from govt, orders sent to Collector, Commissioner

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday also stayed the Village Employment Assistant Guidelines 2025. The High Court has ordered the government that until further orders, no employment assistant will be transferred or terminated. The High Court has issued notice to the state government seeking a reply within 4 weeks. Advocate Gopesh Tiwari said that the High Court has completely stayed the implementation of the government’s guidelines. This order is being sent to the MGNREGA Commissioner, Principal Secretary, Vallabh Bhawan and Collectors of every district, so that employment assistants cannot be transferred anywhere. Petition against termination-transfer policy in guidelines According to Advocate Tiwari, the state government had issued new guidelines establishing termination and transfer policy for employment assistants. However, the implementation of this policy has not yet begun. Meanwhile, employment assistants had challenged the transfer policy and service termination conditions in the High Court. The Madhya Pradesh High Court heard the petition and stayed the 2025 guidelines. Employment assistants were recruited after implementation of Employment Guarantee Scheme Actually, after the implementation of the Employment Guarantee Scheme in the country, employment assistants were recruited to monitor work at the rural level and maintain workers’ records. At that time, Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s government was in power in Madhya Pradesh. Around 25 thousand positions were filled in the state. In the initial phase, employment assistants were fixed a monthly honorarium of ₹9,000. Later, the government realised that the fixed honorarium was less than the work. After this, an additional ₹9,000 was added through two other components. ₹18,000 honorarium for employment assistants Thus, the monthly honorarium of employment assistants was increased to ₹18,000 per month. Most employment assistants were appointed in their ancestral or residential villages. Computer-related qualifications were given priority in the recruitment process. Class 12th marks and computer degrees like PGDCA were used as the basis for selection. Currently also, most employment assistants are working in the same gram panchayat where they were appointed. At the village level, due to the limited computer operation experience of many gram secretaries, employment assistants are handling the responsibility of digital work and online entries in panchayats.