HYDERABAD: It is official now.
The Telangana government has issued orders implementing revised pay scales to all the state government employees.
Separate GOs were issued on salaries, dearness allowance, house rent allowance, retirement gratuity, pension, additional quantum of allowance and salaries of outsourcing and contract employees on Friday.
Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had announced enhancement of salaries to the government employees by 30 per cent instead of 7.5 per cent recommended by the Pay Revision Commission (PRC), which would come into effect from April 1, 2021.
He said the hiked salaries will be paid from June salary i.e July 1.
The government said the monetary benefit of the revised salaries would be paid from April 1, 2020, but the arrears for the period from April 1, 2020, to March 31, 2021, would be paid at the time of retirement of the government employee or to the legal heirs in case of demise of the employee.
The arrears for the period from April and May, 2021, would paid during this financial year.
The dearness allowance (DA) of 30.392 per cent as on July 1, 2018 would be merged in the pay as recommended by the PRC.
The GO said the new salaries would be applicable to all employees of the state government except some categories such as teaching and other staff in government colleges, including medical colleges who have been drawing pay in the revised UGC/ICAR/AICTE pay scales.
The house rent allowance would be paid 13 per cent to 24 per cent depending on the classification of the cities and towns.
But, there would be no ceiling on the HRA.
Adoption of HRA is similar to the recommendations of the seventh central pay commission at the rates of basing on classification for the cities and towns without any ceiling.
Similarly, the retirement gratuity has been enhanced from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 16 lakh.