Hyderabad: At a time when employees across most sectors in the economy are facing job losses, salary cuts and other losses owing to downsizing and slowdown of the economy, unrealistic state government employees of Telangana are trying to pressurise the government into parting with a huge part of its revenues to support an extraordinary salary hike.
The government, led by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, known to be highly benevolent towards trade unions and government employees, is trying to creating a fine balance between public sentiment against unfairly high rise in salaries and public expenditure, and the nagging employees who wish to use the situation and resort to emotional blackmailing.
Telangana employees unions, reminding themselves of the high fitment of 43 per cent that Chief Minister Rao had extended soon taking charge of the state government in 2014, beyond even the expectations of workers, are expecting an encore.
Given the overall state of the economy…