The All-India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968:
✅Ethical Standards: Officers must maintain high ethics, integrity, honesty, political neutrality, accountability, and transparency.
✅Constitutional Supremacy: Must uphold constitutional values in all actions.
✅Media Engagement: Officers can communicate in public media only in bona fide discharge of duties; criticism of government policies is prohibited.
✅Court or Press Appeal: Cannot approach courts or press to vindicate actions under criticism without prior government approval.
✅Omnibus Clause: Officers shall not act in a manner deemed “unbecoming of a member of the service.”
✅Amendments Over Time: The rules have been updated but lack explicit provisions for social media conduct.
✅Ethical Standards: Officers must maintain high ethics, integrity, honesty, political neutrality, accountability, and transparency.
✅Constitutional Supremacy: Must uphold constitutional values in all actions.
✅Media Engagement: Officers can communicate in public media only in bona fide discharge of duties; criticism of government policies is prohibited.
✅Court or Press Appeal: Cannot approach courts or press to vindicate actions under criticism without prior government approval.
✅Omnibus Clause: Officers shall not act in a manner deemed “unbecoming of a member of the service.”
✅Amendments Over Time: The rules have been updated but lack explicit provisions for social media conduct.