Several teachers belonging to the Telangana Prantha Upadhyaya Sangam (TPUS) today staged protests against the 7.5% wage hike proposed in the recently-released PRC report in the state, at the temporary Secretariat in BRKR Bhavan.
The group sat on a dharna and demanded that the government announce a 45% pay rise instead.
The TPUS members claimed that the PRC had made a "flawed recommendation" by proposing to provide only a 7.5% fitment.
"During the coronavirus pandemic, all of us suffered substantial economic losses. Such a low wage hike will therefore not be sufficient. We urge the government to revise the same at the earliest," they said.
They reportedly also raised slogans against the PRC report for recommending such a "miserly hike", leading the police present at the protest site to take them into custody.
This protest is the latest in a string of
such demonstrations - various employees' associations in the state have been agitating for some time now, and have been demanding that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao take a call on their their demands for a new PRC report at the earliest.
The associations have repeatedly expressed their hope that the KCR government will accept their demands and grant the 45% wage hike they seek.
While the Government is yet to take a decision on the matter, Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar recently held
a meeting with several employees' associations in this regard, where he said that the CM would be informed of the demands of the employees so that a decision regarding the PRC could be taken at the earliest.
Minister Srinivas Goud too had promised the agitating employees that the PRC report had not yet been finalised, and that more benefits would soon be added to it.