सरकारें अक्सर नियम बना कर उसे भूल जाने के लिए जानी जाती हैं. अखिल भारतीय सेवा (आचरण) नियमावली 1968 का नियम 17ए एक ऐसा ही नियम है. इस नियम के अनुसार इन सेवाओं के प्रत्येक अधिकारी को अपने व्यक्तिगत स्तर पर दो शिशु परिवार मानक का पालन करना अनिवार्य है. यह नियम 13 जनवरी 1995 को नोटिफिकेशन संख्या 11017/27/93—एआईएस(III) के माध्यम से लागू किया गया था.
अतः, इस नियम के लागू होने के बाद प्रत्येक आईएएस, आईपीएस तथा भारतीय वन सेवा से यह अपेक्षित है उनके पास दो से अधिक संतानें ना हों. लेकिन केन्द्र और राज्य सरकारों ने इन नियमों का पालन कराने के लिए कोई भी प्रयास नहीं किया है. सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता डॉ नूतन ठाकुर, जो आईपीएस अमिताभ ठाकुर की पत्नी हैं, ने ये बातें इन तीनों सेवाओं के कैडर नियंता मंत्रालय- कार्मिक मंत्रालय (आईएएस), गृह मंत्रालय (आईपीएस) तथा वन मंत्रालय (आईएफएस) के सामने उठाया है. ठाकुर ने प्रत्येक अधिकारी के सम्बन्ध में सूचना एकत्र कर उन अधिकारियों के खिलाफ विभागीय कार्यवाही किये जाने की मांग की है जिन्होंने इस नियम का उल्लंघन किया है.
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All India Services (Conduct) Rules 1968-
17A. Observance of cultural norms:— Every member of the service in his personal capacity or otherwise shall —
(i) observe strictly, the existing policies regarding age of marriage, preservation of the Environment, Wild Life and Cultural heritage:
(ii) observe the existing policies regarding crime against women and
(iii) observe the two children family norms.
Inserted vide Notification No. 11017/27/93—AIS(III) dated 13.01.1995 (GSR No. 52 dt. 04.02.1995)
इस मामले में नूतन ठाकुर ने कई केंद्रीय मंत्रालयों और शासन को जो पत्र भेजा है, वो इस प्रकार है…
Subject- Observance of Rule 17A (iii) of the All India Services (Conduct) Rules 1968.
Respected sir,
I am Dr Nutan Thakur, a social and RTI activist based in Lucknow working in the field of accountability and transparency in governance. I am also wife of an IPS officer from UP Cadre, Sri Amitabh Thakur.
Here I present Rule 17A (Observance of cultural norms) of the All India Services (Conduct) Rules 1968— Every member of the service in his personal capacity or otherwise shall —
(i) observe strictly, the existing policies regarding age of marriage, preservation of the Environment, Wild Life and Cultural heritage:
(ii) observe the existing policies regarding crime against women and
(iii) observe the two children family norms.
This Rule was inserted vide Notification No. 11017/27/93—AIS(III) dated 13.01.1995 (GSR No. 52 dt. 04/02/1995). Thus as per Rule 17A (iii), every All India Service (AIS) officer in his personal capacity or otherwise necessarily needs to observe the two children family norms.
I don’t know whether the Central Government (i.e. the respective Cadre controlling departments for IAS- Ministry of Personnel, IPS- Ministry of Home Affairs and IFtS- Ministry of Forest) and the different State governments have any record as regards compliance of this Rule. Again, I am also not sure whether the Union and State governments ask the concerned AIS officers about its compliance.
In our case, we have strictly complied with this Rule as we have only two children- Tanaya and Aditya, which is as per the two-child norm. I hope you agree that if such a Rule was inserted in 1995, there must have been some valid reason for this and any officer deviating from this Rule after its promulgation would be considered to have committed misconduct under the Conduct Rules so as to be punished under the AIS (Discipline and Appeal) Rules.
Hence, I make the following prayers in this regards-
1. Kindly get a definite data from each IFtS officer through Central government and various State governments and their organizations, wherever they are serving, as regards the number of children they have, giving particular attention to the number of children begotten after 04/02/1995
2. Kindly take appropriate disciplinary action at your end against those members of the IFtS who have disobeyed this Rule 17A(iii) after its promulgation on 04/02/1995, or kindly direct the concerned States to take such action.
Lt No- NT/AIS/TC/03
Dated- 08/07/2013 Regards,
Yours,
(Dr Nutan Thakur)
5/426, Viram Khand,
Gomti Nagar, Lucknow
# 094155-34525
nutanthakurlko@gmail.com