Salary hike for state government employees; retirement age to be increased

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Hyderabad: As a New Year gift, Chief Minister K
Chandrashekar Rao announced on Tuesday that he has decided to increase in salaries of all state government employees
He also announced the decision for an increase in the age of superannuation and recruitment of additional staff for all government
departments
Pensioners will also see a hike.Rao announced that the salary hike would benefit 9,36,976 government employees including grant-in aid
employees, work-charged employees,daily wagers, full-time contingent employees, part-time contingent employees, home guards, Anganwadi
workers, contract employees, outsourcing employees, Asha workers, Vidya volunteers, SERP employees, people receiving honorariums and
announced that besides the salary hike, issues related to enhancement of retirement age, promotions, transfers, formulation of simplified
service rules, extending all the retirement benefits on the day of the retirement to the employees, bidding them a respectful farewell and
compassionate appointments would be solved by the end of February.The Chief Minister declared that recruitment of vacant posts in all
secretary Somesh Kumar with principal secretary (finance) Ramakrishna Rao and water resources principal secretary Rajat Kumar as members to
examine the service matters of employees and identify the vacancies in each department
committee will also look into the PRC and advise the government on revision of salary and also examine the Zonal system and related
issues.Recalling the role of employees in the Telangana movement and also of the TRS government extending 42 per cent fitment benefit to
government, the way is clear for government employees to discharge their duties in a hassle-free manner
The entire process should be completed by January-February
remained stalled
Family members who are in sorrow due to the death of their earning family member should not be made to run around government offices for