Hyderabad: Telangana employees unions demand that the state government constitute the 11th Pay Revision Commission (PRC) immediately to revise salaries and pensions. The 10th PRC was set up by the undivided AP government and its tenure will expire on June 30.
The unions argued that it take six months to complete the process, starting from setting up of the PRC to holding consultations with employees unions, study the issues and making recommendations.
They said since only five months were left for the 10th PRC tenure to end, the government should constitute the new commission without delay. Employees urged government to decl-are interim relief (IR) for this year in case there was a delay in setting up PRC.
The employees had last got a pay hike on June 2, 2014, when the state was formed. This was on the basis of the recommendations of the 10th Pay Revision Commission, set up in 2013 by then Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy.
The 10th PRC had recommended a 25 per cent fitment (basic pay hike) in 2013 but was not implemented due to bifurcation related issues.
Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced a 43 per cent fitment, as a token of gratitude for the role played by employees during the agitation.
