Taking an exemplary action, South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has removed 16 officials from the services with immediate effect after review committee constituted by the civic body recommended the same.
The decision was taken as per provisions of Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 and Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMC) services (Control & Appeal) Regulations-1959, SDMC said in a statement.
"The action has been taken under the process mentioned in the directions of the competent authority which states of ensuring probity of Government servants and strengthening administration by undertaking periodic review of all categories of Government servants under Fundamental Rules (FR) 56(J) and rule 48 of CCS (Pension) rules, 1972," it said.
The review committee of SDMC recommended removing 16 officials from the service, it said. The statement further said that as per recommendations of the committee, eight engineers (three executive, four assistant and one junior engineer) have been compulsory retired under rule 56(J) of CCS (pension) rules, 1972.
Further, another eight officials (five teachers, two safai karamcharis and one peon) have also been removed due to their long absence from duty under rule 9 (ii) of the DMC (Control & Appeal) regulations, 1959.
The civic body has made it clear that the functioning of the Government servants will continued to be periodically reviewed. This will go a long way in making administration smooth and enable the honest employees to provide better municipal services to the residents, it said.