PM stresses the need for ensuring the safety of honest employees – Common men and maximum number of government employees of the country are not dishonest. The job of the government must be to ensure safety of honest employees and they should be encouraged, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. His assertion assumes significance as there have been demands for protection by certain serving and retired government employees allegedly named in certain big-ticket scams like coal blocks and spectrum allocations.
“It is true that people do not fear laws. In
government too, if he (employee) gets suspended, he knows he will get
50% salary. Then there will be departmental enquiry which will be
managed and then once the enquiry is over he will be reinstated and
eventually get all the dues. This sort of system is creating problem for
the one who wants to work with honesty. Then the job of government is
to ensure safety of honest people and to give honest people their due.
And we need to emphasise on this,” Modi said.
The prime minister said that the common men
and maximum number of government employees of the country are not
dishonest. “Common men are not dishonest. Common government employee is
not dishonest. There is a big group of people who are living with
honesty but there are some people because of which this perception (that
all employees are corrupt) exist,” Modi said.
The prime minister was addressing valedictory
function of vigilance awareness week organized by central vigilance
commission (CVC) here.
Various associations of central government
employees have been reportedly seeking protection for their members. “An
honest civil servant should not be harassed by anybody or agency or
institution while in service or after retirement. It would make the
civil servants working in the system nervous and edgy, which would not
be in the interest of the country,” the IAS officers association had
said some time back.