This state bans T-shirts, jeans and slippers for its employees in office
Maharashtra has imposed a dress code for all employees working in the government offices even as it banned jeans, T-shirts, and slippers. Also, it has advised the government staff to wear Khadi on Friday every week.
In an order issued by the general administration department on December 8, the state government "pointed out that many employees, particularly contractual employees and advisors appointed for government work, dress up in a way that would be deemed inappropriate for a government employee."
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This creates a negative impression among the people about government servants, it stated.
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Therefore, the Maharashtra government has listed the type of clothes that employees should wear in its offices. Women should wear a sari, salwar, churidar-kurta, trousers with a kurta or a shirt and a dupatta if required while the men should wear trousers and shirts.
The order restricts employees from wearing “clothes with deep colours and strange embroidery patterns or pictures” even as it asked its employees to refrain from wearing jeans and T-shirts in government offices.
The order added that the women employees should wear chappals, sandals or shoes while men should wear shoes or sandals as slippers should not be worn in the office.
In an order to promote khadi, the employees have been asked to wear khadi on Fridays. “If the attire of officials and employees is unsuitable and unclean, it also has an indirect impact on their work,” added Maharashtra's Dress code order for government employees.
-PTC News
