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Suspended staff not to get salary

At present, such staff get half the salary for two years during suspension.

Hyderabad: The government need not pay salaries to employees who are suspended in corruption cases, if new rules are accepted. At present, such staff get half the salary for two years during suspension.

The Telangana government has initiated the process to rewrite service rules to remove the half-salary provision. Employees caught in graft cases are suspended immediately. They sit at home and get half their pay.

The state has nearly 150 such employees. Their suspension period gets extended till the completion of trial, and they continue to draw the half-salary.

( Source : deccan chronicle )
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