HYDERABAD: Due to cash-strapped due to the sweeping lockdown, the Telangana government has decided to continue to cut its employees' wages by 50 per cent in May. The lockdown has caused a huge loss to the revenue of all the state governments. CM of Telangana Chandrasekhar Rao said "If the salaries and pension of the employees are paid, then the expenditure will be more than 3,000 crores, it will empty the entire treasury then neither any payment can be done nor any work can be done." So we have to adopt a right strategy. "
The Telangana government will deduct 75 percent of the salary of public representatives, 60 percent of All India Service Officers, 50 percent of state government employees and 25 percent of pension for May. There will be a 10 per cent salary cut for outsourcing and contract workers. The government has also decided not to pay 1,500 cash to families below the poverty line.
A statement from the CM office said that given the relaxation in lockdown, laborers and workers will get daily work, cash assistance will not be provided from May. However, supply of 12 kg of free rice will continue in May. The government has also decided to pay social security pension without any change. Chandra Shekhar Rao, CM of the state, said that the state should get an income of 12,000 crores per month but it has stopped due to lockdown.
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