‘Leave hike, At-least We Need Salaries On Time’

The Andhra Pradesh government employees Joint Action Committee (JAC) with Amaravati as its headquarters held a review meeting with its working committee and discussed all the details regarding the employees’ concern. In this meeting the employees held black placards and displayed their protest against the AP state government.

“Firstly it would be a huge relief to our employees if the government credits salaries on time. Leave the hike (PRC), we need timely payment of salaries. We were brought to such a situation by the state government. On March 9th we recommenced our agitation and we would intensify our fight for our rights, if the state government doesn’t come down,” said Bopparaju Venkateswarlu and Damodar Rao who are the chairman and general secretary of AP JAC Amaravati respectively.

“The 10th PRC is yet to be implemented and we would like to know when the recommendations of 11th PRC would be brought into effect,” questioned the JAC leaders. Finding fault with the cabinet sub-committee, the JAC leaders added that there was no response whatsoever from the cabinet ministers and they lied that the state government is spending Rs 90,000 crore every month on salaries.

“The state government employees salary would make up to Rs 74,000 crore and the state government is spending the rest of the Rs 16,000 crore on salaries for volunteers, consultants and advisors. We submitted a 50 pages memorandum to the cabinet sub-committee but we received no assurance from the ministers regarding pending DA, medical reimbursement, GPF, APGLI, and others,” stated the JAC leaders.

The JAC leaders added that they will not lay a back step in their agitation and would take part in the protest called by Andhra Pradesh Contributory Pension Scheme Employees Association on their demand of cancellation of CPS.