TRS government would be employee-friendly: Chandrasekhar Rao

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would be "employee-friendly" and treat them as partners in progress, Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said here today.

The employees of the Telangana government would get a 'special Telangana increment' soon as promised earlier and they would get salaries at par with Central government employees, he said.

He was speaking at a gathering of Telangana employees in the Secretariat before taking charge as Chief Minister. He said the service rules of the employees would be simplified. Chandrasekhar Rao was sworn-in as the first Chief Minister of Telangana this morning by Governor ESL Narasimhan. Telangana came into existence today as the 29th state of the country.

PTI