Telangana Hyderabad Outsourced forest department staff unpaid for 6-10 months
Due to a significant cash shortage, the department has been experiencing for more than a year, sources claim that contract employees hired by the state forest department have not been paid for more than six months. These contract employees are stationed at base camps in the forests and include anti-protection observers, wildlife trackers, drivers, computer operators, and others. Several people have allegedly been owed money for ten months.
Due to the financial crisis, department officials said they were unable to carry out compensatory afforestation or work under the Haritha Haram nidhi scheme. According to sources, the Central government's yearly funding release for CAMPA (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority), which is responsible for paying contractual employees' salaries, is still due.
Due to the financial crisis, department officials said they were unable to carry out compensatory afforestation or work under the Haritha Haram nidhi scheme. According to sources, the Central government's yearly funding release for CAMPA (Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority), which is responsible for paying contractual employees' salaries, is still due.
"These outsourced employees in various roles as animal trackers, drivers, and anti-protection watchers are the strongest arms of the departments, but have gone without salaries for almost 10 months in total," a top forest officer told india Herald. Some people haven't received their salary since January, while others haven't received it since April. Additionally, according to sources, money was not disbursed in accordance with the Haritha Haram Nidhi, therefore it wasn't only a CAMPA issue. More than 15 circles of base camps in the state were in a dire position that was much the same.
"Due to the delay in receiving wages, employees have become outraged and are almost ready to stage a dharna. We require funding for local initiatives that will address issues before they worsen, according to a source. "We could pay the salaries until march for the employees in our base camps," a second senior department official added. There are other camps in the state where staff members have not received pay since January, and earnings for the period after april are still unpaid. According to certain officials, they asked the outsourcing companies to pay the workers.
"Due to the delay in receiving wages, employees have become outraged and are almost ready to stage a dharna. We require funding for local initiatives that will address issues before they worsen, according to a source. "We could pay the salaries until march for the employees in our base camps," a second senior department official added. There are other camps in the state where staff members have not received pay since January, and earnings for the period after april are still unpaid. According to certain officials, they asked the outsourcing companies to pay the workers.
A third official stated, "At this time, we have asked the outsourcing companies from which the personnel have been employed to pay their employees and have told them that we would pay them once the APO funds are released. There was a technical problem with the payments to be received under the national CAMPA, said Rakesh M. Dobriyal, Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (PCCF), HoFF (Head of Forest Force). The APO has authorised the cash, and the problem will be fixed in about a week.