Babus can dance - but within Conduct Rules; Borrow Female Artists?
THE Central Civil Services Cultural and Sports Board is organizing the Inter-Ministry Music, Dance and Short Play competition 2013-14 from 27th to 30th January, 2015 at C.S.O.I Auditorium, Vinay Marg, New Delhi.
Though the babus are going to sing, dance and play for three days, they have been warned that participants of inter-Ministry Music & Dance competition being government employees are subjected to the provisions of conduct Rules. Any violation of these provisions would invite disciplinary proceeding.
It seems recently two senior officers of the Chhattisgarh Government were stuck with notices for violation of Conduct Rules for dancing with Amitabh Bachchan - Conduct unbecoming of a Government servant!
The organisers of the cultural meet for the babus have other bureaucratic instructions for the officers who want to participate in the competitions.
Here are some important rules:
1. All Male artists in a play should necessarily be amateurs and working in Offices of the Central Government located at Delhi/New Delhi eligible to participate in the competition.
2. Lady artists may be amateurs working in Central Government Offices at Delhi/New Delhi or the family members of the Central Government employees.
Family as indicated above, means a government servant's wife/husband residing with him/her and legitimate children or step children residing with and wholly dependent upon the him/her. Wives of Central Government employees if serving in non eligible offices are also eligible to participate.
3. Normally all artists participating in a drama in the competition would belong to the Ministry which enters that particular play in the said competition. But where necessary a Ministry may borrow female artists from another Ministry with prior permission of the Board and the Ministry concerned.
Maybe the welcome address will read something like, 'whereas it appears that the Government have in public interest after taking into consideration the opinion of several expert committees, decided to provisionally permit the organisation of this competition subject to all the participants following all the required conditions as per all the rules that for the time being exist in India and subject to the satisfaction of the Joint secretary in the Department of Personnel, to be recorded in writing prior to the closure of the meet, I hereby, in exercise of the powers vested in me, under the various Acts and Rules as detailed in pages 16 to 256 of the brochure brought out on this occasion with the sanction of the President, without prejudice to any other actions permitted under the law, welcome you all to this meet.
At the outset, I am directed to inform you that while there is no provision in the rules to prohibit any Government servant from enjoying this meet, it is brought to the notice of the concerned participants that they remain Government servants even while singing or dancing and the Conduct Rules are applicable at all times. It may please be noted that the meet is subjected to CAG audit and the respective Ministries are responsible for the SOFs and DAPs ………
DoPT Circular No. -14 - CCSCSB, Dated: December 08, 2014