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 Chandrashe
Telangana pay revision panel report triggers protests by employees
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Hyderabad, Jan 27 : Government employees in Telangana took to streets on Wednesday to lodge their protest against the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) report, which recommended 7.5 per cent salary hike over basic pay.
Furious over the meagre hike recommended by the panel, the employees and pensioners made it clear that nothing less than 43 per cent fitment (salary hike) will be acceptable to them.
Raising slogans against the government, the employees came out on streets in Hyderabad and other parts of the state and set afire the copies of PRC report.
Employees’ unions oppose PRC recommendations, seek CM’s intervention
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The ball has once again landed in Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s court with the employees’ unions planning to represent the ‘injustice’ done to employees through the PRC recommendations to him.
The employees’ unions said they could not digest the PRC recommendations, which confined the crucial fitment benefit to 7.5%. In addition, there was a cut in house rent allowance. “This appears to be pay deduction committee, not revision committee,” employees’ representative Mamta commented.
Representatives of the Telangana NGOs Association, Telangana Gazetted Officers’ Association and Telangana Secretariat Association held discussions with the three-member high power committee headed by Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar on Wednesday. They said the panel had submitted its report 31 ‘long’ months after its constitution and the development was an outcome of