30% pay hike for Telangana Government employees and retirement age exceed to 61: Announcement by KCR

On Monday Telangana state government announced 30% pay hike for its government employees. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao made a statement in the state legislative Assembly. The first pay revision commission (PRC) suggested 7.5 percent convenience to employees, which will burden the state finance by rs 2,252 crore but the state government announced 30 percent fitment, which requires additional amount of rs 8,000 crore.The chief Minister also announced that the pay hike would be given to all 9.17 lakh government employees including contract and outsourcing employees. Rao also said that promotions are already being given to 80 percent of the eligible employees and the remaining employees too would get promotions shortly. The vacancies created after promotions would be filled up with fresh employees, he added.Rao also said that the process of giving promotions to the teachers would be started. The inter-district transfers considering partner’s case would be started soon. Rao also stated that the gratuity amount to be paid at the time of retirement of the employee would be increased from the present rs 12 lakh to rs 16 lakh.The family pension would be given to the family members of those employees covered under the new pension scheme (contributory pension scheme).The government has also increased the retirement age of state government employees from existing 58 to 61.