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Leaders of the Navyandhra Teachers’ Association (NTA) connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) urged the State authorities to follow a structured and time-bound mechanics to wide astir ₹35,000 crore worthy successful pending dues to authorities employees and pensioners successful the State.
In a statement, the association’s State president K. Harikrishna and wide caput M. Sreenivasa Rao said that the dues see arrears of Dearness Allowance (DA), permission encashment, aesculapian reimbursements, status benefits, and different admissible claims.
While voicing interest implicit the prolonged hold successful payments, the relation acknowledged the State government’s hard fiscal position, noting that nationalist indebtedness had crossed ₹7 lakh crore, making contiguous afloat colony financially challenging. However, it stressed that continued delays successful releasing morganatic dues were causing terrible fiscal hardship to employees and pensioners, peculiarly retirees and families of deceased staff.
To code the contented without overburdening the State finances, the relation leaders projected a multi-pronged colony exemplary dispersed implicit 2 to 3 years. They suggested clearing dues successful phases with an yearly allocation of ₹12,000–₹17,000 crore, portion giving precedence to pensioners, low-income employees, and families of deceased employees.
A cardinal proposal is the instauration of Employee Dues Bonds (EDBs)—government-backed, tax-free bonds with a maturity play of 3 to 5 years and an involvement complaint of 6–7.5%. These bonds could beryllium made tradable and eligible arsenic collateral, allowing employees to get loans from nationalised banks astatine concessional rates, thereby ensuring contiguous liquidity, they said.
The NTA leaders besides suggested optional payment measures specified arsenic allotment of authorities onshore oregon lodging plots successful lieu of dues, instauration of a dedicated non-lapsable Employee Welfare Fund and statutory backing to guarantee mandatory fund allocations each year. Additionally, they recommended forming a transparent monitoring committee comprising national representatives, a fiscal adept and a erstwhile Chief Secretary to oversee quarterly progress.
The Association urged the authorities to follow this balanced and structured attack to supply timely alleviation to employees portion maintaining fiscal subject and fiscal stability.
