Updated Feb 5, 2021, 4:08 am IST
CM unhappy over staff’s salary hike tactics in Covid times
For the state govt, even to extend a 7.5 % fitment as recommended by the PRC will impose an additional burden of over Rs 2,500 cr per year. (Photo: twitter @TelanganaCMO)
Hyderabad: At a time when employees across most sectors in the economy are facing job losses, salary cuts and other losses owing to downsizing and slowdown of the economy, unrealistic state government employees of Telangana are trying to pressurise the government into parting with a huge part of its revenues to support an extraordinary salary hike.
The government, led by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, known to be highly benevolent towards trade unions and government employees, is trying to creating a fine balance between public sentiment against unfairly high rise in salaries and public expenditure, and the nagging employees who wish to use the situation and resort to emotional blackmailing.