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It is said that there is an acute shortage of manpower with the Horticulture Department. As per the norms, the Horticulture Department of BBMP East should have around 360 employees but it has only 35 employees thus making it tough to look after the saplings planted on the road side and in median in the BBMP East Zone that includes six Assembly constituencies such as Shivajinagar, Shanti Nagar, CV Raman Nagar, Pulikeshi Nagar, Sarvagna Nagar, and KR Puram.