The Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT) has told the Cooperation department to make “all earnest efforts” to complete the process for general transfers in the department for 2024 through online by the end of April.
General transfers have been inordinately delayed in the department due to its failure to operationalise the online mechanism. The poor progress in the general transfers for 2023 has now prompted the KAT to direct the department to skip it and focus on the transfers for 2024.
The KAT order came on a petition filed by two staff members of the department. In February 2017, the Personnel and Administrative Reforms department, Government of Kerala, had asked all government departments to create electronic databases of the staff and implement transfers and postings exclusively through an online system. The Cooperation department is yet to comply with the order.
