Telangana’s expenditure on fee of salaries, pensions elevated from ₹14,849 crore in 2014-15 to ₹41,495 crore in 2022-23

The expenditure incurred by the Telangana Authorities on fee of salaries/wages and pensions to workers of various classes is mounting each passing yr even because the Authorities is but to announce its resolution on the second Pay Revision Fee (PRC) headed by senior bureaucrat N. Shiva Shankar.

In keeping with the Comptroller and Auditor Basic of India, the wage invoice on workers on pay rolls was ₹25,769 crore in 2022-23 and fee of pensions accounted for one more ₹15,816 crore the identical yr. Salaries of standard workers which was ₹10,639 crore in 2014-15, the primary yr of the State formation, virtually doubled the following yr 2015-16 to ₹18,065 crore primarily due to the massive fitment profit introduced by the BRS Authorities. The identical was the case with pensions which elevated from ₹4,210 crore to ₹8,217 crore through the interval.

The following steep enhance within the wage and pension funds was between 2021-22 and 2022-23 from ₹22,150 crore to ₹25,679 crore and ₹14,025 crore to ₹15,816 crore respectively when the Authorities carried out the suggestions of the PRC headed by retired bureaucrat C.R. Biswal.

Telangana’s expenditure on salaries and pensions

The expenditure on hiked salaries and pensions was along with the funds which are being made for various classes of workers like work charged employees, grant in help workers, dwelling guards, day by day wage staff and contract and outsourcing employees amongst others. Although there have been enormous variety of village income assistants and village income officers – 40,561 as on March 2021 — the then Authorities had allotted with their providers on the bottom that the system was rid with corruption. Whereas a few of them have been terminated, others have been absorbed into different departments.

The Congress Authorities which got here to energy in December 2023 nonetheless restored the village income administration by way of gram panchayat officers system of late which is more likely to improve the expenditure additional.

In keeping with an estimate ready by the Planning division up to now, there have been over 9.16 lakh workers working in numerous classes within the Authorities. Of those, workers on the payroll and pensioners constituted 5.7 lakh and the remaining 3.6 lakh have been others

Given the spree of recruitments to varied posts for the reason that previous one yr, the outgo on account of wage funds is anticipated to contribute a big chunk within the coming days. Senior officers nonetheless contended that the distinction was unlikely to be a lot because the posts which are being crammed have been the prevailing vacancies, fee for which has been factored within the price range estimates.

Implementation of the suggestions of the PRC headed by Mr. Shiva Shankar was due from July 1, 2023 and it was for the Authorities to take a name on this, in line with officers.

Other than common workers (on payrolls) and retired workers, Telangana incurs expenditure on salaries paid to different classes of workers

Classes of workers in Telangana and complete variety of them as on March 22, 2021, as per Planning division