Beedi workers across Telangana await inclusion in the Aasara pension scheme, as outdated rules exclude those with post-2014 EPF accounts. Unions have slammed the State government for not fulfilling its poll promise of extending benefits and raising pension amounts
The BRS government had protected the interests of the beedi workers, he said, recalling that former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao had given Rs.2,000 pension for beedi workers.