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Rajasthan Govt comes to the rescue
of staffers' battered wives

The Rajasthan Government has stepped in to help wives of its employees, tortured by husbands.

New service rules provide for measures like payment of the erring employees' salaries to their wives.

The decision to take stringent measures against employees who resort to cruelties with their wives was taken after a high-level discussion chaired by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday.

The Rajasthan subordinate services and ministerial services rules 1999 and fourth class recruitment and other service conditions rules 1999 have been amended, an official spokesman announced on Wednesday.

Any employee who beats or tortures his wife may lose his job in extreme cases, the spokesman said.

A battered wife has to only complain to her husband's superior, he added.

The amended service rules empower the government to sack or suspend the wife-beaters.

Other provisions empower the government to make payment of the employee's salary to his wife, children or other dependants if he does not maintain his family.

The battered wife can also be given a part of her husband's salary as a subsistence allowance.

In some cases, erring employees' annual increments and perks could be stopped, the spokesman said.

The government can also now give a job to the wife of an erring employee on compassionate grounds and sack him from service.

She will be considered a handicap for this purpose.

The state government has issued a circular to all heads of department and asked them to ensure strict compliance of the amended rules.

The government has also asked officials to see if employees who got a government job in place of those who died while in service on compassionate grounds as being relatives were attending to the kin of the deceased fairly.

This follows receipt of several complaints that close relatives of deceased employees who got jobs on compassionate ground were not taking care of the kin of the deceased, the spokesman said.

The government also decided not to include the name of an employee for promotions if he or she forgoes any promotion by the Departmental Promotion Committee once, the spokesman added.

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