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Kutch 'Water Woman' Wins 21-Yr Legal Battle In Supreme Court, Gets Regularised As Group-D Staffer

In January, 2003, Ushaben Joshi, a contingency worker with the Post Office in Kutch, approached the authorities, requesting to consider her case for regularisation and to grant her a temporary status in the Group ‘D’ cadre.

In a recent order, the Supreme Court finally put an end to the 30-year-long wait of a 'water woman' from Gujarat's Kutch district to become a regularised government employee in the Group ‘D’ cadre just the same as a 'Safai Karamchari' in the Posts and Telegraphs Department. She fought a 21-year-long legal battle across courts to get justice. In January, 2003, Ushaben Joshi, a contingency worker with the Post Office in Kutch, approached the authorities concerned, requesting to
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