New Dress Code to be Effective from Monday
Patna: Aug. 25, 2007
The state government, tightening screw on the state employees for coming to work in designers' clothes, ordered implementation of the archaic 1954 dress code saying those who fail to follow the rules would be sent home to change their clothes while departmental actions would be taken against repeat offenders.
While the men in the government departments are expected to wear white shirt and black, or other light-colored, pants and an optional closed-neck coat or jacket, the women are required to wear sari with long-sleeved blouse, or salwar-kameez with a dupatta.
Cabinet chief secretary Girish Shankar said the dress code would have 'positive psychological impact' in the bureaucracy while also 'contributing to the efficiency factor'.
The old rule that was originally tabled by the then Chief Secretary L. P. Singh way back in 1952 and ordered implementation in 1954 would go into immediate effect starting Monday.
The move, however, is being seen by many as an 'useless bureaucratic maneuvering' that has no place in the 21st century.
"Apparently the government has nothing important to do and that is why it is wasting its time in such idiotic diktat that has no bearing on government works and efficiency," said a senior official in the Human Resources department.
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