PWD rest houses to be popularised: Minister
The Hindu
The State government is planning to transform the rest houses under the Public Works Department (PWD) into the largest hospitality network in the State, Minister for Tourism and Public Works P.A. Moha
The State government is planning to transform the rest houses under the Public Works Department (PWD) into the largest hospitality network in the State, Minister for Tourism and Public Works P.A. Mohamed Riyas has said.
Speaking after inaugurating a centralised control room for online booking of rest houses here on Wednesday, he said efforts were on to recruit adequate manpower and improve the functioning of the rest houses. As many as 41 employees had already been redeployed to rest houses and moves were on to train them for hospitality services.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists