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.
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