Minister for General Education V. Sivankutty inaugurated a file adalat in the General Education department at Pareeksha Bhavan here on Monday.
Following a meeting convened by the Minister in January, details of pending files in the Directorate of General Education and in the districts were collected. As many as 14,966 files were found pending in the directorate. A total of 7,266 files were disposed of first and some more later, taking the files disposed of to 57.5% by March 4.
As many as 13,493 files were pending in offices of the district education officers and 24,786 in the offices of assistant education officers. Of these, 3,585 and 12,371 were disposed of, respectively.