GURUGRAM: Haryana's Human Resources Department extended the registration deadline for eligible contractual employees to November 30, 2026, through an order issued on Friday, November 13, 2026. The revised schedule applies across the state, including Gurugram, and sets separate December deadlines for the two stages of official verification under the Haryana Contractual Employees (Security of Service) Act, 2024, and Rules, 2025.
The order is addressed to administrative secretaries, heads of departments, boards, corporations, authorities, divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners. In Gurugram, the deputy commissioner's office is at the Mini Secretariat near Rajeev Chowk. Employees covered by the process should distinguish their own registration deadline from the later deadlines assigned to the officials who verify their records.
Three stages now have separate deadlines
The November 13 extension order, numbered 6/74/2025-3HR-1(A), allows candidate registration up to November 30. Verification by the drawing and disbursing officer, or DDO, is to be completed by December 15. Verification by the head of department, or HOD, on applications received from the DDO is due by December 31, 2026.
The department refers to its earlier letter of October 7, 2026, which prescribed a timetable for verification of eligible employees' records. The new communication revises the schedule and directs recipients to bring it to the attention of everyone concerned for compliance within the specified time. It does not set an hour of day for any of the three deadlines.
- Candidate registration: up to November 30, 2026.
- DDO verification: up to December 15, 2026.
- HOD verification of applications received from the DDO: up to December 31, 2026.
Copies were also sent to the Director General of Treasuries and Accounts, the chief executive of Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam Limited and the managing director of Haryana Knowledge Corporation Limited. The routing reflects the different offices involved in checking employment records. The December dates concern verification after registration; they do not replace November 30 as the date given for candidates.
What records the existing rules require
The extension operates within the existing service security framework. The official rules, notified on August 5, 2025, define a contractual service year as a 365 day period beginning from the first engagement or deployment, during which remuneration was received for at least 240 days. This makes the history of paid service relevant to assessment, rather than just the elapsed time since an employee first joined.
Under the rules, service partly on a lower post and partly on a higher post is not ignored where the payment requirement is met. Where an employee worked partly in a Haryana government department and partly in a state board, corporation or authority, cumulative service is counted for ascertaining five years of contractual service. These are existing provisions, rather than new eligibility changes announced in the November 13 letter.
Annexure B of the rules contains the application form. It asks for the applicant's name, present designation, year by year service details, department or government organisation, engagement mode and number of days for which salary was drawn. It also seeks the date of deployment in the current role, any transfer to HKRNL, and the period and reason for breaks in service.
The form requires proof of past service and a declaration about the genuineness of documents. It asks for the last salary slip or proof of salary drawn before August 16, 2024. Where the post, organisation or engagement mode changes within a contractual year, its explanatory note calls for a separate entry recording that change. Employees should therefore check the sequence of their records before submitting details.
Registration is followed by official scrutiny
The public Job Security Portal provides form filling instructions, frequently asked questions and separate manuals for employees, DDOs and HODs. Those resources accompany the official rules. The extension letter itself is a timetable order and does not list individual employees who have been found eligible or given security of service.
The rules describe further steps after eligibility assessment, including identification of the corresponding post and proposals for creation of a supernumerary post with Finance Department approval. They provide for an order of security of service by the appropriate authority. An employee's registration and the later issue of that order are therefore distinct steps in the prescribed process.
Gurugram readers can place the change alongside earlier reports on dearness allowance for state employees, village watchmen's honorarium and district pension payments. Those measures concern different groups and payment decisions. For the contractual employee process, the immediate new action is registration by November 30, followed by the two verification stages in December.
