The Kerala High Court on Wednesday slammed the State government for not taking proactive steps to ensure that the KSRTC employees were paid their salaries by the fifth of every month.
Justice Devan Ramachandran orally observed that if the government was serious about the intent of the High court directive to ensure payment of salaries of the KSRTC staff, it would have already taken steps in this regard. In fact, the court kept on issuing orders and the government did not take the intention of the former seriously. It was really embarrassing for the court. There was no point in passing orders which could not be implemented.
The court made the observations when a petition by the KSRTC seeking to extend by 10 days the time granted for payment of July salary came up for hearing.
