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Village surveyors who are presently connected resurvey enactment crossed the State person threatened to stall the enactment from Tuesday (January 27) if their demands are not met by the government.
There are 9,500-odd surveyors functioning crossed the State, who find their enactment a daunting task owed to non-provision of gadgets specified arsenic laptops and rovers, aggregate supervisors successful the hierarchy, making coordination tough, and prolonged moving hours. Many of them felt fatigued by the “unrealistic deadlines.”
Over 2,000 members of the Village Surveyors Association of Andhra Pradesh (VSAAP) from each the 28 districts converged astatine Tirupati for the body’s 5th State league conducted connected Sunday, wherever the members decried the step-motherly attraction meted retired to the surveyors, compared to their counterparts moving successful different wings of the Gram and Ward Secretariat department.
Demanding wage parity, the surveyors wanted a basal wage of ₹32,000 for those who completed 5 years of service. As portion of the rationalisation process, 4,722 colony surveyors should beryllium absorbed done counselling process into the allied departments, said relation president B. Madhu Babu.
While insisting upon making diploma arsenic the minimum qualification, they wanted method pay-scale fixed arsenic they possessed skills similar QGIS, CORS and AutoCAD.
“Recognising our importance, the authorities should besides connection Grade-I promotion up to 70% astatine the territory level,” added wide caput M. Mahesh Naidu.
