CM Jagan Announces One DA for Dasara, Five Additional CL Bonanza to Women Employees

VIJAYAWADA: Chief Minister Y.S Jagan Mohan Reddy has announced one pending DA to the state government employees. He also offered a bonanza of five additional casual leaves to the women employees of the medical and health department.

The Chief Minister affirmed that GPS is being used instead of OPS and this would be good for the employees.  

He announced these while inaugurating the two-day 21st state-level council meeting of the APNGOs Association at IGMC stadium here on Monday. Jagan Mohan Reddy said one DA installment would be paid by Dasara festival.

In his address to the 21st State Council meeting of the APNGOs Association, the Chief Minister said the government is committed to the welfare of its employees. “We make policies but you are the bridge between the government and the people. Ultimately, you have to implement the policies for the benefit of people,” he said.

Jagan Mohan Reddy announced that women employees working in the medical and health department would get five days’ casual leave. “Unlike the Telugu Desam government that closed down 54 PSUs like the Nizam Sugar Factory, Chittoor Dairy and Republic Forge, 2,06,638 permanent employees were appointed in the last four years. New recruitments were done to strengthen the welfare delivery system.”

"While Chandrababu Naidu implemented a policy of retrenchment and closed down government organisations, we pulled RTC out of the red and the services of 53,000 RTC employees were regularised by making it a part of the government,” he said.

The CM said, “In medical and health department alone, 53,260 persons were recruited, the services of 10,000 contract employees were regularised by taking 2014 as the cut-off year to accommodate more persons, and justice was done to the language teachers and 1998 DSC candidates. Employees are a part of the government family. Some 1,35,000 persons were appointed in village and ward secretariats within six months of YSRC coming to power to ease the administrative pressure on employees.”

"Besides increasing the DA to 16 per cent in all districts and creating an outsourcing corporation for removing middlemen in the outsourcing sector, the services of 14,658 Vydya Vidhana Parishad employees were regularised and the retirement age was raised to 62 from 60 and compassionate appointments were also made in RTC.”

The Chief Minister explained that as the salaries of government employees including those of Anganwadi and mid-day meal scheme workers, ASHA and home guards went up, the monthly salary bill swelled to ' 3,300 crore. "The government is committed to do more good to the employees,” he said.

“Though the state-organised revenues (SOR) came down during the pandemic times, you worked hard to deliver the welfare benefits to the people,” he said.

Adviser to government (public affairs) Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy also addressed the employees. AP NGO association president B. Srinivasa Rao and other leaders felicitated the CM.