Mizoram: CSS Workers Launch Three-Day Strike Over Job Regularization

AIZAWL: Employees working under various Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) across Mizoram on Tuesday launched a three-day statewide strike, demanding regularization of their jobs under the established state government framework.

More than 15,000 employees working under various Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) across Mizoram participated in the widespread demonstration organized by the All Mizoram CSS Employees Coordination Committee (AMCECC).

Sources stated that the AMCECC has been advocating for the implementation of the Mizoram Regularization of CSS Employees Scheme, which was officially notified by the state government on June 18, 2023.

Following the strike, Malsawmtluanga Hauhnar, the president of AMCECC, accused the government of intentionally delaying the regularization process by issuing a memorandum in October 2024 that established what he described as “impractical criteria” for regularization.

The AMCECC also condemned the state government’s decision to enforce the outdated CSS (Conduct) Rules, 1964, and to implement a “No Work, No Pay” policy effective the day before the strike began.

In response to the widespread protest, Chief Secretary of Mizoram, H. Lalengmawia, affirmed that the state government is actively working on a regularization plan.

However, he stated that the government will consider only those CSS employees whom it recruited through formal and transparent channels—such as public advertisements and recommendations from the Departmental Promotion Committee(DPC)—for permanent positions.