There needs to be restrict to variety of private employees of ministers, observes Kerala HC

Kochi, December 3: The Kerala High Court has noticed that there needs to be a restrict to the variety of private employees of ministers and it ought to apply to the appointment of such employees even for Chief Minister, Chief Whip and the Leader of Opposition.

The court docket additionally noticed that appointing folks as private employees is inappropriate with out fixing any limits.

The commentary of the Division Bench of the excessive court docket got here whereas dismissing a petition filed by Anti-Corruption People’s Movement, an organisation in search of to introduce standards for the appointment of non-public employees.

The Court dismissed the petition on Thursday citing that the appointment of non-public employees is a coverage choice of the state authorities.

It additionally noticed that there needs to be management over the appointment of such employees.

The petitioner additionally sought that the pension for the private employees needs to be cancelled and declared unconstitutional.

Last month, Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan raised the difficulty of life-long pension of non-public employees of cabinet ministers of the Left Democratic Front cabinet terming it a mockery of public cash and stated that he would make it a nationwide difficulty.

Khan had instructed the media “With equal vigour, I will take up the issue where the staff of state ministers become entitled to life-long pension in two years’ time. It’s a mockery of law and atrocious and public money is squandered. These people are party cadres, but they end up becoming entitled to lifelong pensions.”

He additional referred to as the difficulty extremely discriminatory and stated it will be his precedence to finish it.

“It’s highly discriminatory, fraudulent and deceitful. I am going to make it a big national issue. It is a violation of the spirit of the constitution. It will be my priority to bring it to an end. This money belongs to the people of Kerala and not to the cadre,” he additional stated.

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