Surmounting financial difficulties, the Congress government has paid salaries to 3,65,262 regular employees and pensions to 2.85 lakh retired employees on the first of this month, said Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka.
This is the first time since August 2019 that the State government employees received salaries on the first day of the month under the Congress party’s ‘Indiramma Rajyam’, he said, taking a dig at the previous BRS government and accusing it of leaving Telangana in dire financial straits during its nearly 10-year rule.
Speaking to mediapersons in Bhimavaram village of Yerrupalem mandal of Khammam district on Sunday, Mr.Vikramarka, who holds the portfolios of Finance and Energy, said the Congress government credited salaries to the employees on March 1 keeping in view their EMIs and other monthly expenses amid the State’s grim financial situation.
