Telangana govt employees flag pay, promotion issues amid growing unrest

Employees across multiple Telangana government departments have raised concerns over pay scales, promotions, and pending arrears, staging protests and submitting representations. Unions have also sought clarity on policy decisions, highlighting growing unrest and administrative challenges within the workforce.

Hyderabad: Employees from different key departments are unhappy with the government and have expressed their concerns and reservations over a few issues, including pay scales and promotions.

Government employees had staged lunch hour demonstration on April 17, demanding second PRC implementation from June 2 and others. TGSRTC employees conducted their strike from April 22 to 24 in support of their demands like merger of RTC with the government.

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And now, Panchayat Secretaries and Energy departments have submitted representations to the government demanding to address their issues.

Amidst the Energy department’s intensified efforts to get clearances for establishing the TGRPDCL, the Telangana State Power Employees Joint Action Committee (TGPEJAC) demanded the department to share the modalities of the proposed new Discom.

It also wanted a committee to be constituted on pros and cons of establishing the new Discom. Employees should not be influenced by assuring promotions, the TGPEJAC stressed.

Similarly, the Panchayat Secretaries Association submitted a memorandum to the Panchayat Commissioner and wanted their issues to be addressed at the earliest.

The Association wanted the services of outsourcing Panchayat Secretaries to be regularised as Junior Panchayat Secretaries. Cadre strength should be identified and accordingly promotions should be provided to the employees.

“The practice of making employees work on government holidays and Sundays, should be withdrawn,” the office bearers of Panchayat Secretaries Association said in the memorandum. These apart there are few others demands, including implementation of Old Pension Scheme.

Likewise, the Singareni Colleries Employees union staged a demonstration at Vidyut Soudha on Tuesday demanding the government to clear the pending arrears of Rs.46,000 crore payable to Singareni. The SCCL employees said the GENCO and Power Coordination Committees owe payments for supply of coal and power.

Due to the delay in clearing the arrears, SCCL was struggling to pay salaries to employees and meet the regular expenses, they charged.

Despite the Congress government’s claims, employees of different departments are raising issues and exposing the challenges they are facing due to lack of support from the government.