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Nagara panchaya staff to get salaries from 101 A/c
The State government has issued orders facilitating sanitation and Class-IV workers of Nagara panchayat to draw wages directly from the treasury relieving the civic bodies of the financial burden which they hitherto have been experiencing.
Pithapuram: The State government has issued orders facilitating sanitation and Class-IV workers of Nagara panchayat to draw wages directly from the treasury relieving the civic bodies of the financial burden which they hitherto have been experiencing.
It may be recalled that the civic bodies owed arrears of wages to the sanitation and class-IV staff for the past six months. It may be recalled that the State government upgraded 17 major panchayats in the state to that of Nagara Panchayats in 2012. These include Gollaprolu, Mummidivaram and Yeleswaram in East Godavari district.
Consequently, the ministerial and sanitation staff members of the major panchayats have been merged with the municipality. Rules specify that only municipal staff members are entitled to draw their wages directly from treasury under the head of account 010.
But the facility is not extended to the sanitation and class-IV workers. The nagara panchayats have been disbursing salaries to them out of its own funds. The quantum of wage bill for them in Gollaprolu municipality is Rs 36 lakh, Rs 50 lakh in Yeleswaram Nagara panchayat and Rs 10 lakh in Mummidivaram.
Unable to bear with the financial burden, the payment of wages for them became a burden for the nagara panchayats. The state government issuing orders entitling them to draw wages directly from treasury brought cheers to the sanitation and class-IV employees of the nagara panchayat.
Municipal Ministerial Employees’ Association state vice-president K Sivaji, executive body member Francis, district president and secretary Prasad and Bangaru Tirumala lauded the orders and attributed the success to the long-drawn agitation programme led by the state president S Krishna Mohan.
They maintained that the lower-rung employees form backbone to any government department. No government department would be able to notch progress when they are caught in financial problems, they said demanding when the orders would take effect. They demanded the state government to clear the wage bill arrears of the sanitation and class-IV employees.
By Saride Nageswara Rao
