Some recent decisions taken by AP and Telangana governments’ are directly reflecting on each other. AP Government’s decision to increase the retirement age limit of the state government employees from present 58 to 60 years, had its effect on Telangana state government employees. They demand the T-Government to implement the same for them also, but T-CM KCR has promptly rejected.

Then, T-Government’s decision to regularize all the contract employees working in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) encourages the contract employees of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) to demand the AP government to implement the same policy for them.

GVMC Employees and Workers Welfare Association honorary president M Ananda Rao, speaking to media at Vizag said “There are around 6550 contract employees working in GHMC for last several years. However, none of them are entitled to have any benefits declared by the government. Therefore, I take this matter to CM Chandrababu Naidu’s notice few days ago and appealed him to regularize all the contract employees by filling up the large number of vacancies existing in GVMC. We are still waiting for the response from the government.”

The number of contract employees working under GVMC or any other state government department is a clear indication for that much number of employees are required for a smooth running of the systems. So, in other words it can be considered as vacancies to be filled, but the departments are running the show with the contract employees because of lack of sufficient funds or many other reasons. Hence, the contract employees demand for regularizing the jobs can be justified.