State government insulted employees with 7.5% fitment: Manda Krishna
He urged the state government to increase fitment to at least 45 per cent.
Nalgonda: Alleging that the State government has insulted the employees by offering 7.5 per cent fitment benefit through Pay Revision Commission (PRC), Madiga Reservations Porata Samithi (MRPS) founder president Manda Krishna Madiga on Friday urged the State government to increase it to at least 45 per cent.
Speaking at a media conference held in a hotel at Nalgonda on Friday, Krishna Madiga claimed that Biswal Committee has prepared the PRC report as per the instructions of the State government. He said that offering 7.5 per cent fitment benefit was nothing short of insulting the employees. About 99 per cent of the employees were opposing the PRC report and burning its copies as protest, but the leaders of employees’ unions supporting Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, he said. He added that MRPS and Maha Jana Socialist Party would support employees’ unions, if they took up protests against the PRC.
Pointing out that the Chief Minister has been frequently terming Telangana as a rich state, he said that the neighboring State, which had a deficit budget, has also extended PRC higher than of Telangana State. He urged the state government to increase fitment to at least 45 per cent. He reminded that employees also played a crucial role in separate statehood movement. He said that only poor farmers should be made eligible for Rythu Bandhu scheme, while the rich and the landlords should be barred from it.
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