TRS Govt hoodwinking employees: TPCC Chief

Hyderabad, March 16 (INN): Taking serious objections over TRS activists becoming the leaders of Employees' Unions, TPCC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday said that despite their sacrifices during the statehood movement, state employees were unable to get their legitimate share in the new state.

Uttam Kumar Reddy said that even though the State Government has announced 43 per cent fitment for the employees, it has not released PRC arrears for nine months from June, 2014 to February, 2015. He asked the employees to assess as to which government has worked in their favor. He recalled the formation of 10th PRC under P K Agarwal through GO 95 on February 28, 2013 during the Congress government. He reminded that the then government had issued GO MS 10 for releasing 27% interim relief to the employees pending the submission of PRC report.

The TPCC chief said that the TRS Government had announced PRC on March 18, 2015 when employees resorted to protest for their rights. He alleged that TRS government has announced 43% as a whole, of which 27% was given by the previous Congress regime. "TRS Government is misleading the employees by staking claims on initiatives taken by previous Congress regime," he said.

He recalled that state government has announced to credit the pending arrears of nine months in the form of bonds in bank accounts during Assembly session. However, this was put on the back burner.

Uttam Kumar Reddy sought to know as to why efforts were not made for bifurcation of employees even after 21 months of formation of new State. 'Kamalnathan Committee was formed during state bifurcation process to send the employees working in Telangana to their native places and retain Telangana employees from Andhra Pradesh. But nothing is being discussed now', he lamented.

He asked whether KCR was working to safeguard his interests in lieu with not speaking on the issue of employees' bifurcation. He questioned KCR that what happened to his statement made before elections that there will be no options for employees and that all TELANGANA employees will be positioned in Telangana itself. He questioned KCR's silence on this very important issue and observed that it nothing but cheating the employees..

Stating that the Health Cards were defunct, Uttam Kumar Reddy questioned the government over its silence on this issue. As against KCR's promise of cashless treatment, these health cards are not valid in private hospitals so far. "This being the condition of employees on rolls, fate of Health care facilities to the retired employees is more disastrous," he said.

He said that just because of the defunct Health Cards issued by government, several hundred government employees and their relatives could not go for treatment in private hospitals and lost their battle for life. 'This is a very shameful situation for government,' he lashed out.

On the other hand most of the leaders of employees' unions, gazetted officers' union are either current TRS party leaders holding key positions or even present MLAs he informed. He asked whether and how such leaders can fight for the rights of employees. He opined that employees' leaders must not belong to any political party. He stated that leaders who take orders from TRS Government could never fight for the rights of employees. He alleged that employees who are raising questions against such leaders were being targeted.