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Kerala Govt. abolishes 3,510 posts

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Nov. 22. The State Government has abolished with immediate effect 3,510 posts out of the 17,195 posts identified by it as surplus.

A Government Order issued on Wednesday (November 19), the day on which the Cabinet decided to lift the ban on recruitment and extend the validity of PSC rank lists up to March 31, 2004, says that the 3,510 posts will stand abolished with immediate effect. It also says that in case any of these 3,510 posts are not vacant now, they would be treated supernumerary in the departments concerned. This means that these posts would cease to exist as and when the current incumbent leaves it.

Among the posts that have been abolished with effect from November 19, the highest number (652) belongs to the Department of Survey and Land Records. The Directorate of Medical Education under the Department of Health and Family Welfare has lost 553 posts, the Department of Water Resources 363 posts, the Department of Registration 326 posts, the Department of Industries and Commerce 262 posts, the Department of Fisheries 202 posts, the Department of General Education 155 posts and the Department of Printing 105 posts.

The Government had decided to go in for downsizing in early 2002 as part of its economy measures and constituted a committee comprising the Principal Secretary, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, and the Secretary, Finance (Expenditure) to identify the surplus staff in consultation with the Heads of Departments concerned.

The Government had also constituted a Manpower Cell in the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms to attend to redeployment of excess staff identified by the Committee of Secretaries. There were also discussions with representatives of service organisations on the subject.

The number of surplus posts was pegged at 17,195 at the end of this exercise. The November 19 Order indicates that the Government has still not completed the exercise.

Although it has identified 17,195 posts as surplus, it has identified only 11,658 for immediate redeployment/abolition.

The Order says that 3,570 have already been abolished, 2,915 have been redeployed to the Local Self-Government Institutions and 1,663 are yet to be redeployed to the local bodies. The 3,510 posts that have been abolished by virtue of the November 19 Order form part of this.

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