Payment of Subsistence Allowance: -- A case study in systemic changes for office efficiency.
The Departmental Enquiry Rules and Manuals provide for how to deal with defaulting govt servants. Two rules are crucial for present discussion (i) for a person under suspension, the enquiry should be completed in six months - but this time is extendable by authorities at various levels (ii) the person under suspension will be paid a subsistance allowance which will be 50% of his pay and allowances for the first 3 months, to be enhanced to 75% for the remaining period of enquiry - however the authorisation for allowing him to draw the SA has to be issued only for three months (or less) and has to be revised by appropriate authority every three months.
How, for a large office the second rule causes suffering and wastage and how a system change and reduce the two? Here is a case study
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