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Between high-speed data cables and carrier pigeons, the seat of the Kerala government has better use for the latter. Peons have a difficult time getting the files across to the departments concerned and the offices of the secretaries and the ministers as they are all spread across distant blocks, sometimes across the busy street.

Top officials blame the frequent reshuffles in the cabinet as necessitated by the resignations of ministers and the exigencies of administration. Adding to the chaos, the departments housed in the north block have been shifted to make room for the Nava Kerala Mission, an initiative by the Left Democratic Front government to address issues of sustainable development and social justice.

An aggregation of initiatives including Green Kerala, Ardram healthcare assistance project, Life housing project and the comprehensive education reforms project, the Nava Kerala Mission does not have a centralized office.

The program started by claiming only half of the ground floor in the north block but ended up squeezing out all the previous occupants. The government has allotted Rs 6.60 lakh for the Mission to make itself comfortable with new cubicles for the officials and other facilities. The Green Kerala Mission has a deputy chairman and an array of technical experts.

The space crunch in the secretariat is most evident in the health department. The health secretary’s office has been shifted from the third floor of the south block to the Secretariat Annex but the health minister’s office is situated in the north sandwich block in the main building.

The files have to be taken across the road between the offices of the minister and the secretary multiple times. The public works department and the higher education department have the same predicament. A more sensible reorganization would be difficult given the fact that most of the secretaries are in charge of multiple departments.

The home department has been shifted to the third floor of the south block but the designated space was not enough to house all sections. Now, the home secretary has his office in the first floor of the north sandwich block while the chief minister who is in charge of the department sits in the third floor of the north block.

The industries minister also sits in the north block but the department sections are in the south sandwich block.

The government had kept the Administrative Reforms Commission out of the Secretariat, citing a lack of space. The officials did not want to let any office other than government departments to work out of the nerve center.

The V.S. Achuthanandan-led commission has been assigned office space near the Institute of Management in Governance 3 kilometers away from the Secretariat but the associated administrative reforms department is within the Secretariat.

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Quelle/Source: onmanorama, 28.04.2017

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