ANNEXURE VIII
The provisions contained in this Schedule shall apply to all
Employees of the Institute.
In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires:-
(ii) “The Director” in the case of all other employees.
includes:-
(i) the wife, child or step-child of such employees residing
with and dependent on him and in relation to an employee who is a woman, the husband residing with
and dependant on her, and
(ii) any other person related, whether by blood or by
marriage, to the employee or to such employee's wife
or husband and wholly dependant on such Institute
employee, but does not include a wife or husband legally separated from the employee, or child or step-child who is no longer in any way dependant upon him or her, or whose custody the employee has been deprived of by law.
(a) Every employee shall, at all times, maintain absolute integrity and
devotion to duty, and also be strictly honest and impartial in his
official dealings.
Other members of the staff, students and members of the public.
Every employee is a whole-time employee of the Institute, and may be called upon to perform such duties, as may be assigned to him by the competent authority, beyond scheduled working hours and on closed holidays and Sundays. These duties shall, inter alia, include attendance at meetings of Committees to which he may be appointed by the Institute.
Work , during which he must be present at the place of his duty.
Employee shall be absent from duty without prior permission.
Permission of proper authority, even during leave or vacation.
of Institute, the address where he would be available during the period of his absence from station.
4. Taking part in politics and elections
Party or organization which takes part in political activity, nor shall he subscribe in aid or assist in any manner any political movement or activity.
(ii) No employee shall canvass or otherwise interfere or use his
influence in connection with or take part in any election to
legislative body or local authority.
Provided that an employee of the Institute qualified to vote at such election may exercise his right to vote, but where he does so , he shall give no indication of the manner in which he proposes to vote or has voted.
5. Connection with Press or radio or Patents
(1) No employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the
competent authority, own wholly or in part, or conduct, or
participate in the editing or managing of any newspaper or other
periodical publications.
(2) No employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the
competent authority, or any other authority empowered by it in this
behalf, or in the bonafide discharge of his duties, participate in a
radio broadcast or contribute any article or write ant letter either
anonymously or in his own name or in the name of any other
person to any newspaper or periodical.
Provided that no such sanction shall be required if such broadcast
Such contributions is of a purely literary, artistic or scientific
character.
Note: Subject to the restrictions noted below, members of the staff are at
liberty, without any sanction as contemplated in paragraph 5(2)
above, to publish their original scientific works in journals or repute
in India and abroad. If, however, they wish to indicate their official
designations in the articles they want to publish previous sanction of
the competent authority will be necessary.
Such articles must be strictly confined to purely scientific subjects
and should not touch upon administrative matters. They shall be free
from all political tinge.
Publications of articles relating to India's boundary areas and
the tribal population in such areas is prohibited without previous
permission of the competent authority.
6. Criticism of Government/Institute
No employee shall, in any radio broadcast or in any document published anonymously or in his own name or in the name of any other person or in any communication to the press or in any public utterance, make any statement of fact or opinion-
recent policy or action of the Government/Institute; or
(ii) which is capable of embarassing the relations between the Institute
and the Central Government or any State Government or any other
Institutions or organizations or members of the public.
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall apply to any statements made or views expressed by an employee in his official capacity or in the due performance of the duties assigned to him.
7. Evidence before committee or any other authority
(1) Same as provided in sub-paragraph(3) below, no employee shall,
except with the previous sanction of the competent authority give
evidence in connection with any inquiry conducted by any person,
Committee or authority.
(2) Where any sanction has been accorded under sub-paragraph(1)
no employee giving such evidence shall criticize the policy or any
action of the Institute or the Central Government or any State
Government.
(3) Nothing in this paragraph shall apply-
the Institute, by Parliament or by a State Legislature; or
Institute authorities.
8. Unauthorised communication of Information
No employee shall, except in accordance with any general or
special order of the competent authority, or in the performance,
in good faith, of the duties assigned to him, communicate, directly or
indirectly, any official document or information to any person to
whom he is not authorised to communicate such document or
information.
9. Gifts
No employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the
competent authority, accept or permit his wife or any other member
of his family to accept from any person any gift of more than trifling
value. The interpretation of the term 'trifling value' shall be the same
as laid down in the Government Servants' Conduct Rules.
10. Private Trade or Employment
No employee shall, except with the previous permission of the
competent authority, engage, directly or indirectly, in any trade or
business or any private tuition or undertake any employment outside
his official assignments.
Provided that the above restriction shall not apply to academic
work and consultative practice undertaken with the prior permission
of the competent authority which may be given subject to such
condition as regards the acceptance of remuneration as may be laid
down by the Board.
11. Investments, lending & borrowing
(1) No employee shall speculate in any business nor shall he make
or permit his wife or any member of his family to make, any
investment likely to embarrass or influence him in the discharge
of his official duties.
(2) No employee shall lend money at interest to any person nor shall he
borrow money from any person with whom he is likely to have
official dealings.
12. Insolvency, habitual indebtedness and Criminal Proceedings
(1) An employee shall so manage his private affairs as to avoid
habitual indebtedness or insolvency. When an employee is found
liable to arrest for debt or has recourse to insolvency or when it is
found that a moiety of his salary is continuously being attached, he
may be liable to dismissal. An employee who becomes the subject
of legal proceeding for insolvency shall forthwith report full facts
to the Institute.
(2) An employee who gets involved in some criminal proceedings shall
immediately inform the competent authority, irrespective of the fact
whether he has been released on bail or not.
An employee who is detained in police custody, whether on criminal
charge or otherwise, for a period longer than forty-eight hours shall not join his duties in the Institute unless he has obtained written permission to
that effect from the Head of the Institute.
13. Movable, Immovable and Valuable Property
Every member of the staff shall, on first appointment in the Institute service and thereafter at such intervals as may be prescribed by
General or special orders of the competent authority, submit a return in such form as the Institute may prescribe in this behalf of all immoveable property owner, acquired or inherited by him or held by him on lease or
Mortgage, either in his own name or in the name of any member of his family or in the name of any other person. All other restrictions and limitations in regard to transactions in movable /immovable properties as contained in CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964 shall also be applicable.
14. Vindication of acts and Character of employees
No employee shall, except with the previous sanction of the competent authority, have recourse to any Court of Law or to the Press for the vindication of any official act which has been the subject matter of adverse criticism or an attack of defamatory character.
Provided nothing in this rule shall be deemed to prohibit an employee from vindicating his private character or any act done by him in his private capacity.
15. Marriages, etc.
An employee intending to marry a person who holds a citizenship of another foreign country shall seek prior permission of the competent authority.
No employee who has a wife living shall contract another marriage without first obtaining the permission of the Board, notwithstanding that a subsequent marriage is permissible under the personal and religious law for the time being applicable to him, and violation of these rules leads to immediate dismissal from the Institute service.
An Institute employee shall not
guardian of a bride/bridegroom.
The term “dowry” shall have the same meaning as defined in the CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964.
16. Representations
Redress of any grievance or of any wrong done to him, he must forward his case through proper channel, and shall not forward advance copies of his application to any higher authority, unless the lower authority has rejected the claim, or refused relief, or the disposal of the matter is delayed by more than three months.
addressed to the authorities for redress of any grievance or of any other matter.
17. Punishment, Appeals, etc.
An employee shall be governed by the provisions of the relevant rules regarding imposition of penalties for breach of any of these rules, and regarding preference of appeals against any action taken against him.
18. Interpretation
The decision of the Board on all question relating to the interpretation of these provisions shall be final.