VP Joy to take over as new Kerala chief secretary
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Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 10 : The Pinarayi Vijayan government on Wednesday decided to appoint senior bureaucrat V.P. Joy as the new chief secretary of the state.
Joy is an electronics engineer by profession and passed out of the College of Engineering here in 1985 and became a bureaucrat in 1987.
He has served in numerous positions here as well as at the Centre, besides having a term as the Provident Fund Commissioner.
He will take over from incumbent Chief Secretary Viswas Mehta on March 1 and will hold the top bureaucratic post till June 30, 2023, when he retires.
Chennithala compares Isaac to Modi
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He says both are allergic to strikes and protests
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He says both are allergic to strikes and protests
Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala has said that Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac is allergic towards strikes and protests.
He was speaking here on Tuesday after visiting the Walayar girls’ mother who has been on an agitation seeking action against the police officer who investigated her the minor children’s death case.
Comparing Dr. Isaac to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Ramesh said that both were allergic to strikes and protests. Mr. Modi had described protesters as ‘aandolan jivi’ or professional agitators.
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Revised salary, allowance from April 1
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Government employees, including teaching and non-teaching staff of aided educational institutions, will get the salary and allowances recommended by the 11th Kerala Pay Revision Commission headed by K. Mohandas from April 1.
A Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday decided to give retrospective effect to the revised Dearness Allowance from July 1, 2019, and the allowances recommended by the commission from March 1, 2021. The special pay scales recommended by the commission for the Health sector was approved by the Cabinet.
A committee with Chief Secretary Vishwas Mehta as convener has been set up to look into the recommendations of the commission regarding pay scales for employees in other sectors and career advance scheme.