HYDERABAD: There is widespread resentment against the pay revision proposals mooted by the C.R. Biswal Committee to the extent that employees dubbed the report as a ‘pisinari’ (miserly) report.
As soon as the PRC report went viral on social media on Wednesday morning, employees and teachers’ organisations staged protests and some even tried to lay siege to the temporary Secretariat complex at BRK Bhavan here. In several districts, employees organised protest programmes.
Apparently taken aback, the state government sought to underplay the recommendations stating that a final decision would be taken by Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. Tourism minister V. Srinivas Goud, who was earlier an employees leader, assured that the Chief Minister would strive for the welfare of the employees and pensioners.
Maintaining that the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) report was leaked even before it was submitted to the state government, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar directed…