Top Andhra Pradesh news developments for today
The Hindu
Key news developments from Andhra Pradesh on February, 05, 2022
1.The Group of Ministers and leaders of Pay Revision Commission (PRC) struggle committee are scheduled to meet this afternoon to discuss the way forward on the implementation of revised pay scales. Whether the deadlock on the manner in which the salaries are calculated will be broken or the employees will go on strike from February 6 midnight in the event of failure of the fresh round of negotiations remains to be seen.
2.In the run-up to the proposed strike, the APSRTC employees unions are going to stage protests in depots across the State today. The management has been trying to persuade the employees not to participate in the strike but they are determined to go ahead citing clauses detrimental to their interests in the new PRC.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.