The two-day 19th State conference of the Kerala Panchayat Employees Federation (KPEF) will begin here on Saturday with a seminar on ‘20 years of decentralisation’ to be inaugurated by Communist Party of India State unit secretary K. Prakashbabu.
District panchayat president K. Jagadamma, G.S. Jayalal, MLA, and Deputy Mayor Vijaya Francis will speak.
The delegates’ session to be held on Sunday morning will be inaugurated by former Minister C. Divakaran. R. Ramachandran, MLA, will preside. In the afternoon, Minister for Forests K. Raju will address a session.
KPEF State president B. Sarojakshan Pillai told a press conference here that the delimitation process had led to 45 panchayats in the State getting erased which in turn led to the Panchayats Department losing 1,400 posts.
The department had not undergone a change worth the mention from the 1982 staff pattern.
Mr. Pillai said that therefore it was necessary to urgently carry out the recommendations of the 2012 staff pattern modernisation report.
The lost posts should also be restored in order provide better and timely service to the people, he said.
He said that promotions had turned out to be a difficult proposition for the employees.
There had to be a change in the situation, Mr. Pillai said.
‘Local body delimitation process led to Panchayats Department losing 1,400 posts.’
