Kerala Service Rules, 1959

Smt. Sasikala Devi, appointed Assistant Grade‑II in the University of Calicut in 1988 and promoted to Assistant Grade‑I in 1989, was transferred to M.G. University where she received further promotions. In 1999 she sought an inter‑university transfer to Kerala University and, as per the transfer policy, was placed as t…

The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (the Corporation) absorbed employees of the State Transport Department whose pension rights were protected under Section 34 of the Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950 and were to be governed by Part III of the Kerala Service Rules, 1959 (KSR). The State Government, by a lett…

P.D. Chacko worked as a full‑time menial in an aided school from 1968 to 1976, resigned and joined the Kerala government as a peon in 1976. He claimed that, under Kerala Service Rules (KSR) 1959 Rule 60(b), officers who were in "last grade service" on 7‑April‑1970 could retire at 60 years, and therefore he should be al…

The case concerned employees of Kerala's Directorate of Health Services (DHS) who, under a government policy to abolish a dual control system, exercised an option to be absorbed into the Directorate of Medical Education (DME). The dispute was whether this option amounted to a transfer on request, invoking the proviso t…