The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to form the Local Self-Government (LSG) Common Service for five departments, namely Panchayat, Rural Development, Urban Affairs, Town and Country Planning and the LSG Department Engineering wing. The new departmentwill be named LSG Department and its head will be named principal director.
At present, the standalone nature of these departments is affecting the coordination of various activities of LSGs, an official release said. “The unification will not affect the employees,” it said.
The cabinet also decided to merge the Rural Development Commissionerate and the Panchayat
and Urban Affairs Directorates to form two wings — Rural and Urban.
The posts of Rural Development Department Commissioner, Panchayat Director and Urban Affairs
Director will give way to two posts — Director LSGD (Rural) and Director LSGD (Urban).
