Harish Rao reminds Telangana CM of promise made to SSA staff on regularisation of their service

The BRS leader says Revanth Reddy promised to resolve issues of SSA staff within a month after coming to power

Senior leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) T. Harish Rao has criticised Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy for not keeping the word given to small time employees such as those working for the ‘Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan’ (SSA), on the regularisation of their service.

Speaking at a relay hunger strike taken up by the SSA employees in Siddipet on Thursday (December 12, 2024), the BRS leader reminded the Chief Minister that it was he (Mr. Reddy), who in the capacity of Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president, had asked the SSA employees to spare an hour for the Congress party every day to dethrone the then Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, assuring to resolve all their issues within a month of coming to power.

However, it was more than a year now but Mr. Reddy could not take out some time to hear and address the SSA employees’ problems, particularly their demand for regularisation of service. He pointed out that the Congress party had promised to allocate 15% of the budget for education but had ended up with only 7% allocation. Mr. Rao said that Mr. Reddy had promised the SSA employees of regularisation of their service on September 13, 2023 at Warangal Eka Shila Park.

When the SSA employees staged a protest at Indira Park in Hyderabad recently in support of their demand and also to remind the government about the promise made to them, they were arrested by the police. Women employees too were not spared when they called for a ‘chalo assembly’ protest, forgetting another promise of restoring ‘democracy’ in the State in the name of ‘praja palana’, said Mr. Rao.

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Published - December 12, 2024 05:56 pm IST