Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 29 -- More than half of the pending files across government departments in Kerala have been cleared under the ongoing 'File Adalat' initiative, launched on July 1, with the overall disposal rate reported at 53.87 per cent.
As per the latest official data, 46.63 percent of files were cleared in the Secretariat, 55.7 percent in Directorates, and 73.03 percent in Public Utility and Regulatory institutions.
Of the 304,960 files pending in the Secretariat, 142,201 have been disposed of. In the Directorates, 506,718 files were cleared from a total of 909,678, while 20,668 of the 28,301 pending files were settled in other institutions.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, in a message, said that 11 Secretariat departments h...