IAS writes to govt not to pay his salary until contract employees are paid

IAS officer Praveen Prakash and principal secretary in the Andhra Pradesh chief minister's office who served show-cause notices before shunting of the chief secretary LV Subrahmanyam is once again in the news.

In a most surprising note, the IAS officer wrote a letter to his salary drawing and disbursing officer and assistant secretary in the General Administration Ch Rama Rao, asking him not pay his salary until the contract and outsourcing employees are paid.

However, itis a known fact that the outsourced staff are denied payments due to delay in preparation of bills and other reasons.

IAS Praveen Prakash believes that the Class-3 and Class-4 employees are the real arms of the government.

"It is these employees who translate the vision of government at field level. Incidentally, most of them are hired through a contract or outsourcing method. It has been observed that the payment of salary of these contract/ outsourced employees is delayed substantially", he said in the letter.