Reg: Free Government Servant from dense criss-cross web of rules.

[Sanjeev Goyal]

PMOPG/E/2025/0107442, 

 

Government service is all about complying with complex rules & regulations. There are many aspects of this like voluminous compendium, clarifications, notifications, updations, fundamental rules, supplementary rules, central civil service rules, GEM rules, procurement procedures, Ministry specific clarifications, overriding provisions, court decisions, practices, accounting rules, DFPR etc. All this has created a dense web under which a government job survives. A public servant is hanging from one rule to another to be intervened by some notification, later supplemented by another clarification which stands overridden by another exception. Every one is able to find some rule as per own liking. There is no one-stop-shop available to refer all updated encompassing version of such rules where no other OM, notification, clarification, addendum or decision is to be referred. You search on the google, website of DOE, DOPT, swami handbook, discuss with some connect somewhere, refer compilation and still not sure that whatever you have searched is final and no contrary or latest amendment exists anywhere.  OM once issued gets the status pf immortality, in LTC rules still reference is given of an old OM as old as 1957.

This scattered formation has significantly reduced the productivity and lead to enormous wastage of time & energy. There should be one stop shop for all rules to be presented at one place. Why should an employee has to search at so many places, why can’t updated version of rules be published every 2 years encompassing everything.  Managing rule book itself has become as issue.

 

It is requested that DOPT may be advised to provide all encompassing updated version of all CCS rules every 2 years.