(News) Kerala Govt. has decided to constitute the Kerala Administrative Service (KAS)

The state cabinet has decided to constitute the Kerala Administrative Service (KAS) along the lines of the all India Civil Services such as the IAS. It will cover 30 major departments of the state government. The implementation of the KAS is expected to address the issue of shortage of officials, which has often forced the government to handover the charge of two or three departments to one single official.

The "in-principle" decision to implement the order to set up the KAS, originally issued by the previous UDF government, has come despite the objections raised by the secretariat service employee organizations. The employees have been opposing the idea as it would literally deal a major blow to their promotion prospects.

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Courtesy: The Times of India