Pay DA and other arrears of workers without delay, CITU tells A.P. govt.

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CITU State wide   caput   Ch. Narasinga Rao addressing the media successful  Visakhapatnam connected  Tuesday.

CITU State wide caput Ch. Narasinga Rao addressing the media successful Visakhapatnam connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: V. RAJU

Alleging that the Andhra Pradesh authorities has deceived the workers and employees by failing to wage the DA and different arrears, CITU State wide caput Ch. Narasinga Rao has demanded that the authorities wantonness its ‘anti-worker’ policies and settee the arrears without further delay.

Addressing the media connected Tuesday, Mr. Narasinga Rao said that the NDA government, which had promised to clasp discussions with the employees’ unions and travel retired with ‘good news’ up of Deepavali, had asked the employees to beryllium contented with the outgo of a azygous instalment of DA without paying the arrears.

The CITU State committee had sought the outgo of 4 arrears of DA, which were payable by July 2025, helium said.

Mr. Narasinga Rao accused the TDP-led NDA authorities of favouring firm groups portion doing injustice to the employees and workers. The arrears payable to employees were ₹32,000 crore. They had to beryllium paid 4 instalments of surrender leaves. The full arrears payable to employees successful the State was ₹32,000 crore, of which ₹835 crore was payable to the Police Department alone.

Instead of arranging to wage the arrears, the authorities has agreed to wage the arrears of lone ₹105 crore to constabulary unit successful 2 instalments. Taking objection to the statements that outgo of a azygous instalment of DA would effect successful a load of ₹165 crore connected the government, helium said this DA was payable with effect from January past twelvemonth and was being paid aft a hold astir 19 months. He sought contiguous outgo of the remaining 3 instalments.

The CITU State president urged the authorities to fulfil its promises made regarding the authorisation of the PRC, including hiking the salaries of declaration and outsourcing workers, implementing payment schemes, and abolishing the CPS.

He demanded revision of the G.O. pertaining to minimum wages astatine slightest erstwhile successful 2 years, and expanding the DA successful tune with the hike successful the prices of indispensable commodities. CITU territory wide caput R.K.S.V. Kumar was present.

Published - October 21, 2025 07:09 p.m. IST

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