Telangana CM assures employees that their issues will be discussed in Cabinet and solutions worked out  

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy assures to address State government employees' pending issues, including dearness allowance, in upcoming Cabinet meeting.

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy has assured State government employees that their pending issues, including payment of dearness allowance, will be discussed in the State Cabinet meeting scheduled on Tuesday.

The government will also take a decision on the continuance of over 1,100 retired employees in different departments. Employees suffered during the past 10 years as the previous Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) government did not give them an opportunity to raise their problems. The Congress has, therefore, included employees’ problems in its manifesto and was committed to redress their grievances, he said.

The Chief Minister was speaking at a meeting with the representatives of different employee unions here on Sunday. He said members of former Chief Minister and BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s family were made honorary presidents of all unions and they were not bothered about the employees’ issues.

While the previous government had adopted suppressive attitude towards employees, the Congress government believed in resolving the issues through discussions. Accordingly, the meeting had been convened to instill confidence among employees and the government had appointed a Cabinet sub-committee to work out modalities for resolving issues raised by the staff.

The Chief Minister stressed the need for employee unions department-wise and said the government would take decisions in consultation with the employees.

Free power supply to State-run schools, colleges and universities

He said the government would take responsibility of providing power free of cost to State-run schools, colleges and universities. A decision on the issue would be taken during the Cabinet meeting. Steps would be initiated to fill vacant posts in government schools and the employees should have representation in resolving public grievances.