Telangana pays highest salaries to govt employees; junior lineman’s ₹52,000 entry level salary increases to ₹1.91 lakh after 2 decades

Telangana holds the favoritism of being the State wherever the Government employees get the highest salaries adjacent arsenic it braces up for the challenging task of considering the recommendations of the Pay Revision Commission (PRC) headed by retired bureaucrat N. Siva Sankar.

Salaries connected par with Central Govt scale

The State is connected a par with the Central Government, implementing a minimum basal wage of ₹19,000 for the caller entrants into the lowest cadre and the magnitude importantly grows on with the fig of years of work enactment successful by the respective employees. The unit astatine the lowest level successful authorities departments get a wage of ₹50,000 astatine the introduction level. This is overmuch higher successful powerfulness utilities wherever the lowest cadre, similar inferior linemen, draws a wage of implicit ₹52,000 astatine the introduction level, and astir ₹1.91 lakhs for those with work of much than 2 decades.

Reason for precocious salaries

The precocious salaries are connected relationship of the implementation of the erstwhile PRC headed by retired bureaucrat C.R. Biswal. The State Government is incurring immense expenditure connected outgo of salaries/wages and pensions to the unit astatine antithetic levels each month.

21% of Telangana’s gross expenditure connected salaries & pensions

According to provisional figures submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the State Government’s expenditure connected relationship of salaries and pensions (committed expenditure) till January this fiscal [2025-26] has gone up to ₹55,575 crore (₹39,858 crore salaries and ₹15,717 crore pensions) constituting 21.09% of the gross expenditure with 2 much months to spell for the completion of the fiscal year.

Expenditure connected salaries to emergence further

Coupled with the involvement payment, constituting different cardinal country of the committed expenditure, the outgo from the State exchequer accounts to implicit 40% of the gross expenditure. This is apt to emergence further owing to the recruitments made to vacant posts successful antithetic departments successful the past 2 years.

Power dept employees salaries higher

The salaries of the employees of the powerfulness utilities Generation and Transmission Corporations and Distribution Companies are overmuch higher arsenic compared with the State Government staff. For instance, the monthly basal wage for a inferior lineman successful the Transmission Corporation of Telangana starts from ₹24,340 and that of higher people officers of the fertile of superintendent engineers and main engineers is astir ₹1.12 lakh indicating the immense quality successful the wage scales of unit of the State Government departments and powerfulness utilities.

Five instalments of DA due

The Government is owed to wage 5 instalments of the dearness allowance to employees which volition beryllium factored successful in the calculation and fixation of the revised wage scales amid rising request from the employees’ unions to expeditiously merchandise the DA instalments. The PRC would hole the fitment factor, the portion utilized successful revising basal salaries/pensions aft merging the existing quantum of DA with basal salary.

The past Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Government announced fitment of 43% based connected the recommendations of the Pay Commission constituted successful the erstwhile agreed State [Andhra Pradesh] portion the quantum was brought down to 30% successful the implementation of the Biswal Commission recommendations. Given this background, the recommendations of the adjacent PRC are definite to enforce a immense load connected the State exchequer arsenic the quantum of hike suggested volition person a bearing connected the State’s gross expenditure. The Government had already awarded 5 per cent interim alleviation to the employees up of the implementation of the PRC recommendations and it volition beryllium absorbing to spot the quantum of fitment payment it volition denote successful presumption of the choky fiscal concern facing the State.

Telangana’s expenditure connected wages and salaries