Failure to undertake the assignments

PERSONNEL AND ADMIMSTRATIVE REFORMS (ADVICE-C) DEPARTMENT GO. P) No. 12/98/P&RD. Dated Thiruvananthapuram, 7th March 1998. NOTIFICATION S. R. 0; No. 257/98.—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Kerala Public Services Act; 1968 (19 of 1968), read with section 3 thereof, the Government of Kerala hereby make the following rules further to amend the Kerala Government Servants' Conduct Rules, 1960, namely.- 77 RULES Short title and commmcement.—(l) These rules may be called the Kerala Government Servants' Conduct (Amendment) Rules, 1998. (2) They shall come into force at once. Amendment of the Rules—In the Kerala Government Servants' Conduct Rules, 1960 after rule 49A, the following niles shall be inserted, namely:- "49B. Conduct of Teaching staff and other Government servants.- T-The following lapses shall constitute improper conduct on the part of the teaching staff of the Government Institutions and other Government servants:- Failure to undertake the assignments of Public Service Commission such as setting of question papers, invigilation in Examination Halls, acceptance of Chief Superintendentship for the examination, evaluation of answer papers, assisting the Commission as experts in the framing of syllabus for tests or conducting the interviews and to discharge the duties arising therefrom." By order of the Governor, DHARAM VEER, Secret aty to Government.

Explanatory Note (This does not form part of the Notification but is intended to -indicate its general purport.) It has been found that the process of recruitment of staff by Kerala Public Service Commission is handicapped by the non-co-operation of some of the Government servants including teachers to whom the Commission assigns work related to the recruitment. Hence Government propose to make it obligatory on the part of the teaching staff of the Government Institutions and other Government servants, to undertake the assignments of the Public Service Commission scrupulously. This notification is intended to achieve the aboye object.