KOCHI: Nearly 500 employees under the Revenue Department in Ernakulam are in distress because they have not been paid their salaries since the beginning of this financial year. These employees are spread across a dozen or so special offices, including Revenue Recovery, Land Acquisition and Land Tribunal. Twenty-two employees of the Revenue Recovery special office attached to the Kanayannur Taluk Office in Ernakulam have not received their salaries for four months.The employees in two other RRs in the district, Kochi and Aluva, have been going without pay for at least two months.“These employees in special offices are not getting salaries because the government is yet to order Continuous Sanction for these offices,’’ Non-Gazetted Officers Association Ernakulam district secretary N K Kripa told Express.They are working for offices deemed ‘special’ because they cater to projects that are temporary in nature, like RR and LA. That is, once a particular task is completed — for instance, the land acquisition for the International Container Transshipment Terminal at Vallarpadam — the office designated for the purpose ceases to exist.In cases like the LA National Highway and the LA Kochi Metro Rail, it becomes difficult to calculate their exact period of functioning. The services of such offices are extended by the government for six months or for a year using an administrative instrument called Continuous Sanction, implying that the government would give these special offices the sanctity to continue functioning till the purpose for which they were constituted is served.
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