Education Minister Botsa Satyanarayana and Government Advisor (Public Affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy had a fresh round of deliberations with representatives of government employees’ associations on pending issues, including non-financial issues, related to the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) recommendations at the Secretariat on Wednesday.
Mr. Satyanarayana said the government was keen on resolving the issues at the earliest and was working in that direction.
According to an official release, the irritants in the implementation of the employees’ health scheme, making the increased retirement age (62 years) applicable to societies and corporations, giving revised HRA to employees in the newly-formed districts, regularisation of contract workers, compassionate appointments to the family members of employees who died of COVID and cadre-wise fixation of pay scales were discussed in detail.
As far as the financial matters were concerned, the employees’ associations requested speedy clearance for the payment of PRC and DA arrears and pending bills.
Principal secretaries H. Arun Kumar (GAD-services) and M. Ravi Chandra (COVID-19 management and vaccination), advisor (employees’ welfare) P. Chandrasekhar and employees’ associations’ office-bearers Bandi Srinivasa Rao, K. Venkatarami Reddy, Bopparaju Venkateswarlu, K.R. Suryanarayana and Y.V. Rao was present.
