The Central Government has decided to amend rules to check arbitrary suspension of IAS, IPS and Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officials and to bring in uniformity in procedure to be followed for conducting disciplinary proceedings against them.
The information regarding suspension of an IAS, IPS and IFoS official by a state has to be immediately communicated to the Centre by the fastest means, said the rule proposed to be amended by the Central Government.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has written to all state governments and cadre-controlling authorities seeking comments on the proposed changes in all India Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1969.
Every order of suspension and revocation shall be made in a stipulated standard form and “the reasons for every such order shall also be communicated to the appointing authority and the lending authority, through confidential letters along with the order itself”, reads the proposed rule.
The states will also have to send a detailed report on any order of suspension of an officer of all India services — Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Police Service (IPS) and Indian Forest Service (IFoS) — to the Central Government within a period of fifteen days of the date on which the officer is suspended or is deemed to have been suspended, according to it.