Hyderabad: Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) has given a big gift to the maulvis and imams of the state. The Telangana Wakf Board chairman has informed that CM KCR has cleared Rs 17 crore for the pending salary of imams and muezzins of the state for three months, and the remaining amount will be received by July 18. According to Waqf Board chief Mohammad Masiullah Khan, "I thank CM KCR for clearing Rs 17 crore for the salaries of muezzins and imams outstanding for the last three months. Rs.10 crores have already been released for 2 months' salary. The rest of the money will be available by July 18.''
Hyderabad | I thank CM KCR for sanctioning Rs 17 crore for salaries of Imam & Muezzins pending for past 3 months. 2 month's salary amounting to Rs 10 crore has already been released, rest too would come by July 18: Mohd Masiullah Khan, Chairman Waqf Board of Telangana pic.twitter.com/EaCiCsnuMQ
— ANI (@ANI) July 16, 2022
Let us know that the Telangana government has been giving 5000 thousand rupees per month as an honorarium to the imams and muezzins of the state for a long time. This benefits thousands of imams-muazzins of the state. A few days ago, Maulana Hakim Sufi Khairuddin of the All India Sufi Ulema Council had written a letter to the CM KCR seeking payment of arrears of salaries to imams and muezzins. At the same time, the letter demanded that action be taken against the wakf board employees. They alleged that they were abused.
Maulana Hakim said that 7000 Imams and Muazzins were constantly making rounds of the board office for the pending salary for three years, but the board officials did not solve their problem. His complaint was that the board employees have started considering the board as their personal property and there is corruption happening there. The Maulana had also said that if these 7000 Imams were not paid salaries, they would take to the streets and protest.
On the other hand, this decision of KCR is being criticized on social media. One user has asked, "Are imams and muezzins doing a government job, or is it a government post to be muezzin, it is purely the politics of appeasement on which taxpayers' money is being spent." Shame on you KCR, will you give salary and pension to Hindu priests also or will you just take money from temples and give them to Muslims.
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