The first batch of Kerala Administrative Service (KAS) officer trainees, who joined the State Civil Service in December last year, are yet to get their pay.
The KAS was implemented to generate an efficient middle-level personnel for the State administration. Multiple reasons, including the government departments concerned moving at a snail’s pace to complete procedures and technical hiccups in the SPARK payroll software, have reportedly delayed the payment of salary to the trainees.
The KAS stream 1 candidates, comprising direct recruits, were asked to join service on December 20 last, non-gazetted government employees of stream 2 on December 21, and government gazetted employees of stream 3 on December 22.
