Behind every Government Order, every cabinet approval, every Tuesday borrowing of ₹4,400 crore, every lump-sum contract for Amaravati’s secretariat, behind all the grand architecture of the Chandrababu Naidu government’s fiscal mismanagement.
Fifty thousand contract employees working across various government departments, secretariat offices, and district administrative buildings across Andhra Pradesh have not received their salaries for two full months. Two months doing their jobs, and returning home with nothing to show for it because the government of a state that borrows ₹523 crore every single day cannot find the money to pay the people who keep its own offices functioning.
The Finance Department — the government body responsible for releasing funds for salary payments has not released salaries despite the contract period having concluded. A second month has now passed without payment. The Finance Department’s failure to act has left these workers in a state of acute financial crisis.
Government Orders that should have been issued to extend or regularise these contracts have not been issued. The deadline of March has passed. A new month April, has come and gone without salary payment and now these workers are being told that since their contract period has formally ended, their service has also technically lapsed, meaning they may not only be unpaid for two months but may also face the loss of their positions entirely.
This is not a statistics problem. This is a dignity problem. This is a governance failure so basic, so inexcusable, and so revealing of this government’s true priorities that it deserves to be stated plainly and loudly: the Chandrababu Naidu government is failing its own employees
