Uttam demands minimum 43% fitment for state employees

The Congress has strongly criticised the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) for recommending a fitment of a mere 7.5 per cent for state government employees. Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Thursday alleged that the PRC’s recommendations appear to have been dictated by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao.

Uttam Kumar Reddy demanded that the state government provide a fitment of not less than

43 per cent to the employees.

The TPCC chief, along with party MLC T. Jeevan Reddy, TPCC working president Ponnam Prabhakar and other leaders, was addressing a press conference at Gandhi Bhavan.

Uttam Kumar Reddy said that the fitment of

7.5 per cent was unrealistic and far below the expectations of government employees. He announced that the

Congress would support the agitation by the employees seeking at least 43 per cent fitment.

After having played a major role in the statehood agitation, and risking their jobs, government employees deserve a better future but Chandrasahekar

Rao had shattered their dreams and continues to subject them to injustices, the TPCC president said.He slammed the other recommendations of the PRC on reducing house rent allowance and added that against the 1.91 lakh vacancies in the government mentioned by the PRC, the government has been claiming that it will only 50,000 vacancies, which was not acceptable. It was shameful that the government had left 1.91 lakh posts vacant, he said.

The TRS came to power in 2014 on the promise of filling one lakh vacancies, and the promise was repeated more than twice in the Assembly by the CM. However, not even 25 per cent of vacancies were filled by the government in seven years, he said.