Patna: The Nitish Kumar government on Tuesday decided to treat as "serious misconduct" for public servants not submitting their details of property within the stipulated time frame every year and warned of taking disciplinary action against erring officials.
The decision was taken at the state cabinet meeting which gave its nod to the proposed amendments to Bihar Public Servant conduct code 1976.
The amendment made it compulsory for public servants to submit details of their property every year within the stipulated time failing which it would be treated as serious misconduct and disciplinary action would be taken against the guilty public servants. The state government has recently withheld salaries of several employees who did not submit details of their property.
Principal Secretary of Cabinet Secretariat Ravikant said the state government also decided that now onwards the state employees were free to make such information public which had been permitted under the rights to information act.
"It has been done to ensure that the official information are made available to the common citizen in a transparent and right way," he said. The meeting also sanctioned R 81.05 crore for purchasing equipment and modernisation of police for anti-Naxal offensive, Ravikant said.
The fund would be used for purchasing 51 anti-landmine vehicles, 95 bullet proof gypsies, 50 military transport vehicles and hundred general military transport vehicles.
PTI