Succumbing to pressures from the employees and reprimands from the state high court, the Telangana government has finally announced restoration of full salaries to its employees and pensioners from July 1.
After a meeting with senior officials of the finance department on Tuesday night, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced that the salaries of the state government employees and pensioners will be paid in full for this month, since the state economy is getting better to some extent.
It was not exactly known whether the full salaries would be paid only “for this month” or “from this month,” as the statement from CM’s office said it will be done for the month of June.
There is also no mention of whether the government would pay the deferred salaries also to the employees and pensioners, who have been facing salary cuts ranging from 10 per cent to 75 per cent with effect from March in view of the financial crisis arising out of lockdown imposed to contain Coronavirus spread.
The government earlier said the slashed part of the salary would be paid in instalments later, sources said it is now contemplating including the same in the general provident fund.
It means, the employees won’t be able to get their 50 per cent deducted salary till their retirement.
Interestingly, it was only on June 17 that the KCR government promulgated the Telangana Disaster and Public Health Emergency (Special Provisions) Ordinance 2020 seeking to defer payment of salaries, pensions and other dues in the event of disaster and public health emergency in the State.
In Andhra Pradesh, however, chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had already restored full salary to all its employees and pensioners with effect from May and also agreed to pay deducted salary to the employees in instalments.