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108 does a mini Satyam?
The ‘108’ emergency services in Telangana being run by GVK-EMRI is bogged down in yet another controversy. If the 1,000-odd employees are to be believed, the emergency medical service has been juggling with figures and manipulating financial accounts.
According to the emergency service staff, GVK-EMRI shows excess number of employees and inflated pay scales
Hyderabad: The ‘108’ emergency services in Telangana being run by GVK-EMRI is bogged down in yet another controversy. If the 1,000-odd employees are to be believed, the emergency medical service has been juggling with figures and manipulating financial accounts.
According to the employees, a total of 1,501 members are working in the ‘108’ emergency services in Telangana. Of these 1,427 are emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and pilots and 74 are working with the call centre attached to the service.But GVK-EMRI is allegedly disbursing salaries to about 1,614 staff members. This means that the EMRI is showing 113 staff members as excess, the employees say.
Speaking to The Hans India, Telangana 108 Employees Welfare Association Working president Palle Ashok said, “The scales of salaries claimed by the GVK-EMRI are sham.” To back his claim, he said in a response to his RTI, the GVK-EMRI has claimed paying a gross salary of Rs 9,500 to Rs 17,815 for an EMT. Likewise, it has claimed paying a gross salary of Rs 9,300 to Rs 13,016 for a pilot. This was not correct, Ashok said.
Ashok said even in the case of HRA, while the EMRI claims to be paying Rs 2,250 to 3,750, it does not exceed Rs 2,300. Also, the claims in regard to gross salary, special allowance and basic were not in line with what it claims, he alleged. In the call centre of EMRI, only four employees get a salary of Rs 10,000 and above. Remaining 70 members are getting only Rs 9,200.
He further alleged that the EMRI had been showing about 113 non-existing staff members and has been showing that they were being paid salaries.Reacting to the discrepancies, Telangana Medical Health Employees Union president Md Shabbir Ahmed demanded a thorough inquiry into it.
By:Naveen kumar
