J&K Govt issues guidelines regarding the use of social media by the Govt Employees of UT of J&K

'J&K Govt issues guidelines regarding the use of social media by the Govt Employees of UT of J&K'

No Government employee shall, by any utterance, writing or otherwise discuss or criticize in public or in any meeting of any association or body any policy pursued or action taken by the Government nor shall he in any manner participate in any such discussion or criticism.

These rules are applicable to all the Government employees of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and give details on the conduct that is expected of the employees in their personal as well as professional life. The rules list out the activities that are not to be carried out by the employees and violation of the conduct rules can be punished under rule 30 of the Jammu and Kashmir Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1956.

The following penalties may, for good and sufficient reason and as
hereinafter provided, be imposed upon members of a service, namely
(i) Censure;
(ii) fine not exceeding one month’s pay;
(iii) withholding of increments and/or promotion;
(iv) reduction to a lower post and/or a lower time-scale and/or to a lower stage in time-scale;
(v) recovery from pay of the whole or part of any pecuniary loss caused to Government by negligence or breach of orders;
(vi) Premature retirement on proportionate pension other than that specified in rule 226 (2) of Jammu and Kashmir Civil Service Regulations.