KCR restores full salaries to employees and pensioners after three months of salary cuts

After going through wage cuts within the final three months, all the workers and pensioners of the Telangana authorities will get their full salaries from July 1.

A choice to this impact was taken by chief minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao after a gathering with the officers of the finance division on Tuesday.

“Since the state economy is getting better to some extent, the salaries of the state government employees and pensioners will be paid in full for this month,” an official assertion from the chief minister’s workplace mentioned.

The Telangana authorities have been implementing wage cuts starting from 10 per cent to 75 per cent for all the federal government workers, all India service officers and elected public representatives with impact from March in view of the monetary disaster arising out of lockdown imposed to comprise Coronavirus unfold.

Now that the lockdown has been lifted and financial exercise has picked up during the last one month, the monetary place of the state has improved some extent. Accordingly, the workers and pensioners would get full salaries for the month of June to paid on July 1.

Interestingly, it was solely on June 17 that the KCR authorities promulgated the Telangana Disaster and Public Health Emergency (Special Provisions) Ordinance 2020 looking for to defer fee of salaries, pensions and different dues within the occasion of catastrophe and public well being emergency within the State.

The ordinance empowered the federal government to defer fee of month-to-month pay, pension or remuneration to the worker, pensioner or different individuals to the extent not exceeding half (50 per cent) the whole month-to-month fee throughout disaster interval. Further, the ordinance mandates the federal government to pay the deferred quantity inside six months from the date of deferment. However, the State authorities could make amendments.

This ordinance was challenged by a bit of workers and pensioners within the excessive courtroom, which served notices on the federal government to submit a counter explaining the explanations for imposing wage cuts. Even earlier than the case got here up for listening to, the state authorities has restored the complete salaries for workers and pensioners from this month.

Neighbouring Andhra Pradesh authorities led by Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy had already restored full wage to all its workers and pensioners with impact from May.