KCR cheers up Revenue staff with salary gift

Hyderabad: Hinting the hike in salaries of government employees in near future, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Saturday announced one month basic salary as incentive to the staff and employees of the Revenue Department for successfully completing the big task of Land Records Purification.

The Chief Minister instructed the officials concerned to give one month basic pay to 10,809 Revenue employees, 24, 410 VRAs, 530 Survey employees. The total number of employees to get the benefit are 35,749. The government gave 42 per cent fitment to the employees as part of pay revision Telangana State is formed. 

“We have also given the Telangana State increment. In future too, we have decided to give good salaries and allowances to the employees,” Congratulating the Revenue employees for successfully conducting the programme in a record time of 100 days, KCR said that having employees with such dedication, commitment is nothing but good fortune of the Telangana people and farmers.

In Telangana, as many as 22.5 lakh acres of land was distributed to the poor, of this, there is clarity on the ownership rights on 20 lakh acres of the land. The officials are making efforts get clarity on the remaining 2.5 lakh acres of land. Total clarity on the ownership right of land came out except the lands about which cases are pending in the court and the lands in litigation between the Revenue and Forest Departments.

“The Land records Purification programme had shown the benefit of having new districts. The programme is successfully implemented and completed and became possible since the districts are small. This is a litmus test for the efficiency of the new Collectors who had shown their mettle. They had done their duty extraordinarily,” the Chief Minister said.