jaipur cabinet minister pratap singh khachariyawas on sunday assured protesting covid health assistants chas to regularise them following a thorough processover 200 chas with rajya sabha mp kirori lal meena staged a sitin outside khachariyawas house demanding that their cadre of 40000 should also be regularised the way other 110 lakh contractual employees have been made permanenti believe that any issue can be resolved with a discussion i would like to assure the protesting chas that once chief minister ashok gehlot returns to jaipur i will discuss the matter with him i again want to assure the protesting chas that the government is committed to the overall development of all residents including them said the ministerthe state had on october 22 approved the proposal to implement rajasthan contractual hiring to civil post rules 2022 allowing 110 lakh contractual employees in various departments of the state government to become permanent employeesthe chas have been deputed by the government on a contractual basis during the first wave of covid in 2020 to aid the existing medical facilities for 3 months their tenure lasted for more than a year due to no respite in covid cases in 2021 and 22rajya sabha mp kirori lal meena who called the chas in jaipur to reach the ministers house said the government has shown its insensitive face by excluding these covert warriors they had risked their lives 4 the sake of saving people during the deadly ko bid waves i demand that these employees be regularised as soon as possible or else we will stage a major protest in the state capital said meena