Telangana to have only regular staff, contract system to end: K Chandrasekhar Rao

Hyderabad: The state government issued orders on Thursday reducing the property tax of about five lakh house owners paying below Rs 1,200 to a nominal Rs 101.

The government has declared Friday as a holiday for the New Year. To compensate for this, the second Saturday in February would be a working day.

Earlier, Mr Rao held a high-level meeting in Secretariat on Thursday with top ministers and officials to finalise the sops.

The Chief Minister also handed over to officials, thousands of applications and representations which he had received from people while touring the districts during the Telangana statehood agitation from 2001 to 2014 and as CM from June 2014 till date.

They were categorised department-wise. He asked officials to computerise all the applications and try to resolve the issues and submit action-taken reports to the CMO every week.

Mr Rao reminded them about his promise to regularise contract staff during the Telangana statehood agitation days and before the 2014 general elections and said the time had come to fulfil the promise.

“Our policy is not to have contract staff in Telangana state. Everyone should be full-time regular government employees. Once the existing contract staff are regularised, there should be no contract staff system in the state in future,” he said.

Mr Rao had recently announced waiving Rs 423 crore power, water tariff arrears for the poor in the GHMC limits, which is expected to benefit 9 lakh people.

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