Thursday, January 30, 2014

Haryana Govt directs IAS officers to obey All India Services (Conduct) Rules

by Haryananewswire
CHANDIGARH, JAN 30
The Haryana Government has directed all IAS officers in the State to strictly obey the All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968 in compliance with the judgment of Supreme Court in the matter of T.S.R. Subramanian and Others V/s Union of India and others.
          While stating this here today, an official spokesman said that the Chief Secretary, Mr. S.C. Choudhary has directed that as per the said Rules, no member of the service would, in the performance of his official duties, or in the exercise of powers conferred on him, act otherwise than in his own best judgment to be true and correct except when he is acting under the direction of his official superior.
          The direction of the official superior should ordinarily be in writing. Where the issue of oral direction becomes unavoidable, the official superior would confirm it in writing immediately thereafter. A member of the Service who has received oral direction from his official superior should seek confirmation of the same in writing, as early as possible and in such case, it would be the duty of the official superior to confirm the direction in writing.
          It has been made clear that a member of the Service who habitually fails to perform a task assigned to him within the time set for the purpose and with the quality of performance expected of him would be deemed to be lacking in devotion to duty. Also, nothing would be construed as empowering a Government servant to evade his responsibilities by seeking instructions from or approval of, a superior officer or authority when such instructions are not necessary under the scheme of distribution of powers and responsibilities.
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