The KCR-led TRS government in Telangana was once known as ’employee-friendly government.’

This is because, soon after KCR assumed office as CM for the first term in June 2014, he announced several sops to government employees as a thanks-giving gesture for their active participation in Telangana statehood agitation, for strongly supporting TRS during statehood agitation which played a key role in building pressure on then UPA government at the Centre to bifurcation Andhra Pradesh and grant statehood to Telangana.

KCR announced highest fitment (salary hike), special Telangana increment and cashless and limitless medical treatment for employees.

However, all this image of KCR being employee-friendly has become a thing of past now.

After becoming CM for second term in December 2018, KCR started taking a ‘tough stand’ on state government employees.

He did not announce new Pay Revision Commission pay scales, Interim Relief for employees as promised.

He labelled revenue staff as ‘corrupt’ and threatened to abolish the revenue department.

KCR dismissed over 48,000 TSRTC staff at a single stroke after they went on strike on October 5.

KCR adopted a tough stand on RTC strike due to which the RTC staff were forced to call off their strike after 47 days without achieving any of their 26 demands.

KCR has now decided to privatise RTC to end monopoly of RTC employees.

KCR continues to trouble RTC staff by not taking them into jobs even after they announced withdrawal of strike.

Other employees unions like TGOs, TNGOs which theatened to go on strike on various demands, have now became silent after seeing the plight of RTC employees due to the tough stand taken by KCR on their demands.

Employees unions, which once used to believe KCR and TRS government as ’employee friendly’ are now shivering with the very mention of KCR’s name.