Sanyukta Sadachar Samiti – Permission to Central Government servants to join

(10) Sanyukta Sadachar Samiti – Permission to Central Government servants to join

The Government of India have had under consideration the question whether central Government servants should be permitted to become members and take part in the activities of the Sanyukta Sadachar Samiti – the Sanyukta Sadachar Samiti is a non-Official, non-political and non-sectarian organization recently started with the objects mainly of creating a social and moral climate to discourage anti-social and corrupt practices and of developing the will and capacity of the people to fight and eradicate corruption in all forms.

2. In view of the non-political and non-sectarian character of the Sanyukta Sadachar Samiti, it has been decided that Central Government servants should be free to join the Samiti, provided that their association with the Samiti is without detriment to the proper discharge of their normal official duties or infringement of the Government Servants Conduct Rules. Government servants as members of the Samiti should restrict their activities to the improvement of the ethical standards and the moral tone of society only and should not use the forum of the Samiti to lodge information or complaints against Government servants or Government agencies.

3. For becoming members of the Sanyukta Sadachar Samiti, no prior permission of the Government will be necessary, but such membership should be with the knowledge of the Head of the Department concerned.

[MHA OM No. 25/21/64-Estt. (A), dated 15.07.1964]