Hyderabad, Dec. 19 -- The Supreme Court has dismissed Osmania University's plea challenging the Telangana High Court's directive to regularise daily wage employees who had served the institution for nearly four decades.

A bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice SVN Bhatti delivered the judgment on Thursday, upholding the High Court's November 2024 order and bringing relief to long-serving workers such as attendants, sweepers, ward boys, scavengers, drivers, and watchmen.

Bench makes remarks on public employment

During the hearing, the bench took serious note of the state of public employment, remarking that India's youth were losing faith in securing government jobs due to the prolonged reliance on contractual, ad-hoc, and nominal m...