May 2, 2024: Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena has removed at least 223 contractual employees from the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) as they were appointed without prior permission.

The removal order was issued because the commission does not allow the authority to hire any employee on contractual basis. These employees were hired when the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Swati Maliwal was appointed as the chairperson.

The removal order read, “DCW has violated the statutory provisions of DCW Act, 1994 and various standing instructions of the Department of Finance & Planning Department, GNCTD by creating 223 posts and engaging staff without following due procedure i.e. no study was conducted to assess the actual requirement of additional staff and eligibility criteria for each post, no administrative approval and expenditure sanctioned was obtained from the GNCTD for engaging such manpower and applications for such posts were not formally invited, role and responsibility for any of these posts were not assigned and emoluments of some of the incumbents which were decided at the time of initial appointment, were enhanced very sharply and arbitrarily.”