The Secretariat has become Telangana’s unpaid-bills noticeboard
Retired employees and contractors protested again. The government’s payment record remains harder to find than the queue outside the Finance Department.
Retired employees and contractors have repeatedly sought payment updates at the Telangana Secretariat.
Telangana’s Secretariat hosted another protest on September 28, with retired employees seeking retirement benefits and contractors seeking payment of pending bills. They gathered near Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka’s chamber; some said they had repeatedly sought meetings with him and Finance Secretary Sandeep Kumar Sultania. Police prevented some protesters from meeting officials, Deccan Chronicle reported. The Finance Department has not published a complete, current, department-wise statement of pending bills in the material reviewed.
The protest was not a one-off. Contractors protested at the Secretariat in March and August 2025, and the Builders Association of India postponed a June 2026 agitation after the government promised action. The government then said ₹3,000 crore had been paid in 30 months and ₹2,500 crore remained. Those figures were reported government claims, not independently reconciled accounts.
BRS leader T Harish Rao called the Secretariat a protest venue under Congress rule and repeated an allegation that 20–30% commissions were demanded to clear bills. That allegation remains unverified: no complaint, FIR, audit finding or inquiry report was located. The verifiable question is simpler. Publish the bill numbers, departments, dates and payments. Until then, the Congress government’s assurances remain better organised than its accounts.