A. Sampath, MP, has accused the United Democratic Front (UDF) government of neglecting the functioning of the Kerala State Housing Board (KSHB) to facilitate the interests of real estates companies.
Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Mr. Sampath, who is also the president of the CITU-affiliated Kerala State Housing Board Employees Federation, said the disregard shown by the government was evident by the fact that the public sector enterprise had 11 secretaries within a period of four-and-a-half years.
The post was vacant at present. There were only 365 permanent employees in the company which had 1,045 posts.
Numerous persons had been appointed on contract, flouting the prescribed guidelines, he said.
He added that no measures had been adopted in recovering dues, amounting to Rs.16.11 crore, which were to be paid to the KSHB by various departments. In addition, nearly Rs.130 crore was yet to be obtained through recovery proceedings in over 3,400 cases.
