Staring at a crippling financial position the wake of the coronavirus health crisis, Telangana Govt. on Monday announced drastic pay cuts for all its employees, bureaucrats and public representatives.
A decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting convened by chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao.
A statement from the chief minister’s office said there would be 75 per cent cut in the salaries of the chief minister, his cabinet colleagues, MLAs, MLCs, chairpersons of various state-level corporations and representatives of urban and rural local bodies.
Salaries of all India service officers including those in the IAS, IPS and IFS will be slashed by 60 per cent.
In all the other categories of state government employees, including teachers, gazetted and non-gazetted offices, there would be a 50 per cent cut in their monthly salaries. “However, in the case of Class IV employees like peons, sweepers and drivers, and also outsourced and contract employees, the salary cut would be restricted to 10 per cent,” the statement said.
Even retired employees of the state government have not been spared. While pensions of all categories of retired employees will be cut by 50 per cent.