Hyderabad: In an announcement that caught many unawares, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) working president K. Taraka Rama Rao on Thursday said that very soon, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao would announce a monthly allowance for the unemployed youth in the state.
Though the ruling TRS party included an unemployment allowance of Rs 3,000 per month for every ‘eligible’ unemployed youth in its 2018 poll manifesto, KTR’s announcement about an announcement very soon, nearly mid-way to through the government’s term, seemingly coincided with the alleged leak of the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) report.
The C. R. Biswal PRC committee recommended enhancing the retirement age of all government employees to 60 years from the present 58 years.
Another significance attached to the announcement was that Rama Rao, deviating from the regular practice of the ruling party, in which Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao comes out with the disruptive moves and catches everyone by…