Plan afoot to amend code of conduct for ministers
12 Dec 2013 5:30 AM IST
Now, ministers both at the Centre and in the states, are likely to be asked to uphold the political impartiality of the civil services and not to direct bureaucrats to act in any way which could conflict with their duties and responsibilities as a government employee.
The meeting of the union cabinet on Thursday is expected to take up amendment to the code of conduct for ministers to add a new clause aimed at checking the political executive from misusing bureaucrats for political purposes. According to the Cabinet proposal, it will also help check civil servants from cultivating political patronage.
‘The proposed amendment will enable the political executives to guard against the trend (of) so-called attractive transfers and postings (which) continues to allure civil servants. This will also enable civil servants not to act in any way which would conflict with their duties and responsibilities,’ the proposal said.
This will be the second amendment to the code of conduct which came into being in 1964.
The meeting of the union cabinet on Thursday is expected to take up amendment to the code of conduct for ministers to add a new clause aimed at checking the political executive from misusing bureaucrats for political purposes. According to the Cabinet proposal, it will also help check civil servants from cultivating political patronage.
‘The proposed amendment will enable the political executives to guard against the trend (of) so-called attractive transfers and postings (which) continues to allure civil servants. This will also enable civil servants not to act in any way which would conflict with their duties and responsibilities,’ the proposal said.
This will be the second amendment to the code of conduct which came into being in 1964.
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