Telangana Education Commission calls for trimming teachers’ pay, ending EAPCET

Are the pay packets of government teachers, faculty and non-teaching employees so bulky that they need to be trimmed?

So believes the Telangana Education Commission while calling for a review and rationalisation of their pay structures.

In its ‘Education Policy for Telangana’ submitted to Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday, the Commission stated, “It is observed that the salaries of permanent teachers, faculty, and non-teaching employees are relatively very high when compared with prevailing market benchmarks.”

The Commission, chaired by Akunuri Murali with Prof PL Visweshwar Rao, Dr Charakonda



Venkatesh and Jyotsna Shiva Reddy as members, goes on to state, “In future staff recruitments, it may be prudent to review and rationalise these structures so that adequate budgetary space is available for non-salary expenditures, which are essential for improving the quality of education and enhancing student well-being.”

The State’s overall fiscal capacity necessitates a balanced approach to manage expenditures on salaries, allowances, and pensions of government employees, including those in the education sector. If left unaddressed, existing cost structures could pose constraints on the future expansion and strengthening of public education, it said.