Hyderabad, Feb. 26 -- Telangana is facing a sharp increase in its salary and pension expenditure, with long-serving Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) sweepers earning up to Rs 2 lakh per month.

The state is now spending about Rs 6,000 crore every month on employee pay and retirement benefits.

Salary of senior power utility engineers

In Telangana, senior power utility engineers can earn up to Rs 7 lakh a month.

Officials say the current expenditure is nearly four times higher than the outgo recorded at the time of state formation in 2014.

Successive pay revisions over the years, often implemented around election cycles, have significantly increased fixed administrative spending.

The revisions have pushed compensation lev...