4 bureaucratic posts for which IAS officers are eyeing at in Kerala

The four bureaucratic posts held by non-IAS officers are at the centre of discussion in the bureaucracy in Kerala. The posts include Excise Commissioner, Transport Commissioner, Director, the Institute of Management , IMG and Director, KILA. While in the first two posts, IPS officers have been appointed and in the rest two, retired IAS officers or non-IAS were posted. The unhappy IAS officers have demanded the Chief Minister to appoint IAS officers only on these posts. One senior IAS officer told Whispers In The Corridors , ‘Excise Commissioner post is IAS cadre post and Transport commissioner post is though with cadre of IPS in the last cadre review but not declared from IAS cadre. Means, the post belongs to both – IAS and IPS cadre. Moreover, IMG and KILA are cadre post but retired IAS officer and Non IAS officers are appointed here’. ‘The appointment of other officials in the IAS cadre post is against the provisions of All India Services Act 1951’, he added. One senior IPS officer told, we have contemplated the issue but decided not to initiate any step.