Chandigarh, May 13 -- A month after deciding to convert 2,888 outsourced posts into sanctioned positions, the municipal corporation (MC) has now backtracked on the plan, leaving thousands of employees staring at uncertainty yet again.

Municipal commissioner Amit Kumar, during a recent House meeting, announced that the plan to regularise the posts has been scrapped. "We have dropped the plan with regard to sending the proposal of sanctioning 2,888 posts to the UT administration. This should be resolved so that it can be confirmed in the minutes in May," Kumar stated. The House then passed a revised proposal to formally shelve the initiative.

Kumar added, "Any decision regarding sanctioning of posts or manpower will be made only after a c...