After farmers, state staff to get subsidy from K Chandrasekhar Rao

Hyderabad: In an election year, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao wants all sections of society to get into the TRS fold by making them happy. Mr Rao is taking very calculated steps in this direction. In the last four years, he concentrated on the weaker sections such as SCs, STs, BCs, minorities and others. Now he is concentrating on the poor among the forward castes.

With the implementation of the Rythu Bandhu scheme, the TRS government has attracted the farmers. Recently, Mr Rao said that the state government would introduce welfare measures for the poor belonging to forward castes. The forward castes remained the only section without any scheme to woo in the last four years. In the election year, Mr Rao wants to implement some schemes to please this section also.

Another important section comprises government employees and teachers who are conducting agitations against the state government. During the elections government employees play a key role. Keeping this in view, Mr Rao constituted a Cabinet sub-committee to look into the issues of employees and teachers. The sub-committee submitted its report to Mr Rao on Friday. On May 16, the Chief Minister will be holding a meeting with the leaders of state government employees and teachers to discuss about their problems. The main demands of government employees are appointing a Pay Revision Commission (PRC), transfers, promotions and other issues. The state government employees are opposing the implementation of the Contributory Pension Scheme introduced by the Central government. For the first time all Telangana employees associations have put up a united fight against the TRS government. Mr Rao is likely to announce several welfare schemes for government employees apart from appointing a PRC. 

Generally PRC takes a long time to submit reports. But KCR wants to fix the time for the commission to submit its report to the government at the earliest.