Municipal wage cut, paperwork still missing
Workers allege Telangana’s Congress government cut outsourcing pay and threaten a services strike. The order that supposedly did it remains unavailable.
Municipal outsourcing workers say the order behind the alleged pay cut remains unavailable.
Telangana municipal outsourcing workers say their pay has been cut and have threatened to stop services if the government does not respond by the end of September. The paperwork behind the alleged cut, however, is still taking the scenic route.
Two union representatives told a September 28 report that G.O. 1181 reduced some workers’ monthly remuneration from an alleged ₹22,750 to ₹16,600 or ₹19,500. They said the affected workforce includes work inspectors, data-entry operators, sanitary inspectors, bill collectors and junior assistants. They also alleged that audit officials issued notices seeking recovery of wages already paid. The claims have not been independently verified.
A Telangana government-linked remuneration table hosted on Scribd lists ₹22,750 for system assistants, ₹19,500 for data-entry operators, ₹16,600 for work inspectors and certain drivers and public-health workers, and ₹15,600 for field assistants. It does not establish that G.O. 1181 introduced a cut. One report dates that order to June 12, 2026; another says July 12. The government has not publicly explained the discrepancy, published the order, or responded to the allegations located in this research.
The workers say they will announce strike dates if the government remains silent. For now, even the order at the centre of the dispute has not been produced.