Thiruvananthapuram: The government has launched an initiative to take stock of excess staff and duplication of work in various departments to move it to where there is a lack of employees.
According to the order issued by the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reform last week, 16 teams will examine 44 departments, and submit details of surplus staff and duplication of work in it.
There are many departments with excess staff, for several reasons.
While some still retain employees appointed for projects that have ended, there are others such as public work and water sources that have surplus staff due to technology and computerized implementation.
Some of these departments have typic posts, which have become excessive after computerization.
Last year, the government had abolished 52 Type Junior Type who had been lying in a long empty in the Air Authority of Kerala.
The team will also find various welfare boards, commissions, authorities and communities that have been entrusted with similar tasks and bring them under one administrative unit.
State expenditure for the financial year was previously closed at Rs 1,41,946.24 Crore, where income expenditure contributed 89.06% (RS 1,26,425.44 Crore).
The findings by the committee appointed by the government to rationalize income expenditure, led by the Sunil Mani development study center, have found that salaries, pensions, and interest payments produce around 70% of the total state income expenditure.
Government employee salaries reach 30% of these spending and these three components together contribute to 51% of the total increase in state revenue expenditure in the past 10 years, the committee has found.
According to the report, the salary component contributes to 29% in income expenditure from 2011-12 to 2018-19.
The report, while recommending that no new posts that must be made in the government or auxiliary institutions for the next two years, have also recommended that no temporary post that must be made and post while there is no need to be set or made permanently.
The committee also found that the technical department was also burdened with a large number of administrative staff who duplicate technical staff work.
Most of them can be reworked and technical staff can take over most of their work, especially now that computerization is almost universal.
The cabinet at that time on September 16 last year took several decisions to reduce developing government revenue.
It has decided to take stock of all such employees and move it to another department that is a short walk.