Employee unions, Oppn parties cry foul after PRC recommends 7.5% fitment
By Sakina FatimaandMohammed Hussain| Updated: 28th January 2021 10:29 pm IST
The unions warned that warned that they would go on strike if their demands are not met.
Hyderabad: A day after the first Pay Revision Commission (PRC) for Telangana government employees recommended a fitment of 7.5 per cent on basic pay, employee unions and opposition parties in the state expressed disappointment. Many of them on Wednesday and Thursday took to the streets to lodge protest over meager pay hike even after waiting for over 30 months.
The three-member commission of the retired IAS officers, comprising CR Biswal as chairman and C Umamaheswara Rao and Mohammed Ali Rafath as members, was constituted by the Telangana government in May 2018. The CR Biswal committee submitted its report on December 31, 2020, to chief secretary Somesh Kumar after the PRC ‘bonanza’ announcement by the chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to over 9.35 lakh government employees.