Telangana to deduct Green Fund from April

The State government will start deducting one-time annual contribution from the salaries, honorarium and remuneration of public representatives from April this year for the first-of-its-kind Haritha Nidhi (Telangana Green Fund) created to fund the green movement in the State. The one-time contribution will be deducted every year in April payable in May.

The TGF contribution will also be deducted from salaries of all categories of employees of State government, All India Service Officers, State government undertakings including corporations, societies, grant-in-aid and other institutions, universities and schools every year in April. 

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced the establishment of TGF in the State Assembly in October last for effective implementation of the Telangana ku Haritha Haram programme in the State. He had urged the people to take up the responsibility of environmental protection and



plantation.

The government proposed to deduct Rs.6,000 per annum from MPs, MLAs and MLCs salaries, Rs.1,200 from Chairpersons of the Corporations and Zilla Parishad Chairpersons, Rs 600 from Chairpersons of Mandal Praja Parishad and Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituency Presidents and Rs.120 from Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies, Corporators, Municipal Councillors and Sarpanches.

The State government issued a Government Order on Friday instructing levy and remittance of contributions towards TGF, for which necessary amendments to rules as may be required, should be issued by the departments concerned.

The contribution of works contracts of all engineering departments and corporations in the State in Irrigation and Command Area Development (CAD) would be 0.01 per cent while the contribution from Constituency Development Fund from the Planning department would be 10 per cent.