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Chief whip will get 17 private staffers extra. Job: Nothing

Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The solely job of a chief whip is to situation whip to the ruling entrance members when essential proceedings which contain voting happen within the meeting. Yet, when Kanjirappally MLA and Kerala Congress (M) chief N Jayaraj was elected the chief whip within the second Pinarayi Vijayan authorities, he was granted a cabinet minister’s rank and an eight-member private employees crew.

Now, 17 extra have been added to the crew, taking the power to 25, which is the utmost restrict set by the ruling Left entrance for ministers. The wage of the chief whip’s private employees will price the exchequer round Rs 3 crore each year.

The common administration division issued an order on Tuesday to nominate the 17 members on a co-terminus foundation. The resolution has been permitted by the cabinet at a time when the state is pressured to take loans to offer wage and pension for workers and when borrowing has already crossed the projected determine within the funds.

The new members of Jayaraj’s employees embrace Dr Relfi Paul, who’s the personal secretary, three further personal secretaries, two assistant personal secretaries, two assistants, 5 clerks and 4 workplace attendants.While two of them are on deputation from authorities service and one in every of them is re-employed submit retirement, others are all direct recruits. Sources mentioned lots of the new recruits are nominees of Kerala Congress (M) leaders whereas some are CPM nominees.

The PS and extra PS will draw a month-to-month wage within the Rs 1,07,800-Rs 1,60,000 scale whereas assistant PS-ranked officers will draw a wage within the scale of Rs 63,700-Rs 1,23,700. Two assistants will draw a wage of Rs 37,400-Rs 79,000 and 5 clerks will draw a wage within the Rs 31,000-Rs 66,800 scale. In addition, all of them might be eligible for pension on completion of two years’ service. 

Pinarayi agreed to KC(M) demand final month

Economist B A Prakash mentioned the choice uncovered how insensitive our legislators are to actuality. “This is nothing however fiscal extravaganza. Politicians suppose their responsibility is to siphon off the state’s restricted assets by dividing it amongst themselves.

Whether Communists or Capitalists are in energy, issues aren’t any completely different,” the previous state finance fee chairman instructed TNIE. A senior official mentioned: “None of the non-public employees members has any work to do. Half a dozen of them work in Kanjirappally and Kottayam, serving to out the chief whip when he engages in some work in his constituency and perform among the work of his occasion.

Whenever the meeting isn’t in session, there may be completely nothing for the chief whip and his employees to do.” Despite repeated makes an attempt, Jayaraj was not obtainable for remark. Sources within the LDF mentioned KC(M) had been demanding extra private employees members for the chief whip for fairly a while.

Pinarayi agreed to the demand final month, following which the method to nominate new members was initiated. It could also be recalled that CPI’s Ok Rajan, who was the chief whip within the first Pinarayi authorities, maintained a private employees of 10. P C George, who was the chief whip within the 2011 Oommen Chandy authorities, had appointed 30 private employees members, which triggered an argument.

Sports minister to journey to US for treatmentT’Puram: Sports Minister V Abdurahiman will journey to the US for remedy from January 5 to 18. The state cabinet permitted Abdurahiman’s US journey, topic to clearance from the ministry of exterior affairs. The INL chief who represents Tanur will avail remedy at Johns Hopkins OP Centre in New York. The whole bills for journey and remedy might be borne by the state authorities.

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