Wearing sunglasses during PM''s visit gets IAS official into trouble

Raipur, May 15

The District Collector of Jaddalpur had to face the music for not having "appropriately" dressed while receiving Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the latter’s Chattisgarh visit last week.

In a crisply worded letter to Amit Kataria, an IAS official of the 2004 batch, the state government has rapped him for wearing a blue striped shirt and sunglasses, which the state government says violates the protocol of Section 3(i) of All India Services (Conduct) Rules, which mandates: “Every member of the Services shall at all times maintain absolute integrity and devotion to duty and shall do nothing which is unbecoming of a member of the service.”

“The state government warns you that in future there should be no violation of laid down norms and protocol,” the letter said. PTI