Kerala Government Secretariat

The Kerala Government Secretariat in Thiruvananthapuram is the seat of management of the Government of Kerala, housing essential ministries and bureaucratic workplaces. It is the best echelon of state administrative structure imparting locus for the workout of authority with the aid of kingdom Government. The secretariat refers back to the complicated of departments. Its political heads are the ministers while the administrative heads are the Secretaries to the Government. The Government Secretariat is a famous landmark and positioned in coronary heart of the Thiruvananthapuram City, in Narmada Road. It is one of the great place.

The Secretariat complicated was at the start built as Durbar Hall for Travancore Kingdom. Over 140 years old, the constructing's foundation stone became laid via His Highness Ayilyam Thirunal, the Maharaja of Travancore in 1865 and became finished in 1869. The authentic structure become deliberate to house Travancore Royal Durbar Hall in which the King meet his council of ministers on monthly foundation. It became designed and constructed below Barton, the then leader engineer of Travancore and consists of factors of Roman and Dutch structure. The creation became supervised by means of the then Dewan, T. Madhava Rao, whose statue now stands across the road contrary the building.