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Resolve employees’ issues, else face their fury: TPCC
The Congress on Saturday warned the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government of serious consequences if it further delayed the resolution of issues concerning employees. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy and chief spokesperson Dr Dasoju Sravan wrote an open letter to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao asking him to do justice to the employees, teachers and
Hyderabad: The Congress on Saturday warned the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government of serious consequences if it further delayed the resolution of issues concerning employees. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president N Uttam Kumar Reddy and chief spokesperson Dr Dasoju Sravan wrote an open letter to Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao asking him to do justice to the employees, teachers and other unions.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Sravan said the employees had played a major role in Telangana statehood movement while putting their jobs and lives at stake. Moved by the commitment of employees for statehood cause, the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi granted Telangana State.
However, Sravan said the TRS government and K Chandrashekar Rao had totally disappointed the employees by ignoring their sacrifices. Lakhs of employees are now suffering to get their trivial demands fulfilled.
He said employees’ hopes of getting true justice in new State had been proved futile. He said union leaders like Karam Ravinder Reddy, Devi Prasad, Swamy Goud and Srinivas Goud, who had once played the role of tigers and even challenged the then Chief Ministers over employees' issues, had now been transformed into cats. He said the Chief Minister did not have even five minutes for the employees' union today who had spent hours together to discuss the agitation strategy.
Elaborating on the employees' demands, Sravan demanded that the government enhance age of retirement from 58-year to 60-year on par with Central government employees. Sravan also urged that the government take a decision to give the employees social security.
"Some States in the country are planning to do away with Contributory Pension Scheme policy in light of Supreme Court ruling instructing social security to government employees. We demand that you re-examine the CPS method. Employees are not clear about their payments until retirement since there is no proper mechanism to check the employees’ and government share. About 1.12 lakh government employees, under this system, need social security. Therefore, you must pressurise the Centre to restore old pension policy," the Congress leaders demanded.
Speaking about the Pay Revision Commission (PRC), Sravan said that the new PRC is scheduled to be implemented from July1, 2018. On transfers he said, "The transfers of the government employees that were held back are still hanging in the limbo," he said. Sravan said that the Chief Minister should have called for an all-party meeting to discuss the issue.
