PRC to be headed by ex-bureaucrat

The State government has constituted the first Pay Revision Commission (PRC) after the formation of Telangana headed by retired bureaucrat C. R. Biswal for the employees. Coming a day after Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s assurance to employees, the PRC will have retired IAS officers C. Umamaheswara Rao and Mohammad Ali Rafat as members.

Three-month time

The commission has been mandated to give its report within three months of the date of assumption of charge, Chief Secretary S.K. Joshi said in the order issued late on Friday evening.

The PRC had been mandated to evolve principles governing the structure of emoluments and the conditions of service of various categories of employees of the government, local bodies and aided institutions, non-teaching staff of various universities, work-charged employees and full-time contingent employees that had financial bearing.

It should examine the extent to which the existing dearness allowance should be merged in pay and evolve consequent new set of pay, besides suggesting the mode of fixation of pay in the revised pay scales.