New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that 90 per cent of IAS officers "do not work" and said there were times when he felt development was "stuck at the secretariat".

The AAP leader also said if Delhi had full statehood, his government would regularise all contractual employees within 24 hours.

Kejriwal, who was speaking at an event organised to felicitate power department pensioners, alleged that IAS officers "obstructed files".

"Ninety per cent of them (IAS officers) do not work and hold up the files," he said, citing his proposal for regularising contractual employees. "When I proposed regularisation of contractual employees, all the officers opposed me. They said if regularised they won't work. I said, if this is the logic then all the IAS officers should be ad hoc because they do not work," he said.

Referring to the cashless health service for the power department pensioners, he said he had learnt that officers were causing obstacles for the scheme. "I sometimes feel that the development was stuck at the secretariat," he said.

Kejriwal said the labour department has been asked to prepare a notification for regularising contractual employees. "I have asked the labour department to send the draft notification for LG's (lieutenant-governor's) approval. If he obstructs it, they (the contractual employees) will give him a befitting reply."

About his government's proposal to regularise guest teachers, passed recently in the Assembly, he said: "We have sent the file to the LG. Now, it is between the LG and the guest teachers and they can settle it out themselves." Kejriwal also said his government was working to implement equal pay for equal work.