The State government has decided to examine the possibility of creating a ministerial wing in the Excise department.
The Personnel and Administrative Reforms department will be asked to carry out a study on forming the ministerial wing with clerical posts and also fixing the duty hours of staff in the Excise department.
The government passed orders on October 17 in this regard after the Kerala Administrative Tribunal (KAT), in a March 21 order on two different petitions, asked it to consider the petitioners’ demands for forming the ministerial wing and declaring eight-hour duty in the Excise department.
