Contract Employee regularization

I am a PPSC appointed Punjab Govt. Contract Employee (secondary school educator BS 16) and my question is given below with details.
Can i be regularized after Punjab regularization act 2018 repeal as my colleagues who had b.ed complete are regularized and my case was kept in working paper(pending) to be regularized after submission of b.ed transcript (b.ed issue was due to HEC ban on university not due to my negligence).

Can i be regularized after b.ed degree completion?

ANSWER:

you are a duly appointed contract employee of the Government of Punjab, serving as a Secondary School Educator (BS-16) under the PPSC recruitment process. The matter in issue pertains to his right to regularization despite the repeal of the Punjab Regularization of Service Act, 2018.

It is clarified that the repeal of the 2018 Act does not extinguish or defeat any vested right or legitimate expectation that had already accrued in favour of an employee prior to the repeal, particularly when similarly placed colleagues have already been regularized. The record shows that the case of the querist was duly included in the working paper for regularization and was kept pending solely for the submission of the B.Ed transcript. The delay in obtaining said transcript occurred due to an HEC-imposed ban on the concerned university, which was completely beyond the control or negligence of the employee.

In these circumstances, once the employee has now completed the B.Ed degree and fulfilled the requisite qualification prescribed by the Government, he is entitled to be considered for regularization in the same manner and on the same footing as his colleagues who were regularized earlier. The principle of equality before law (Article 25 of the Constitution) also mandates that no discrimination may be made among employees similarly situated.

Therefore, subject to verification of documents and completion of formalities, the employee may lawfully be regularized, and the department is under a legal obligation to process his case in accordance with the earlier working paper and prevailing service laws, rules, and notifications applicable to PPSC-recruited educators.