Employees and officers will not be allowed to wear casuals in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly District Magistrate’s office. The administration has also warned the employees and said that if they violate the official dress code, action will also be taken against them. The Bareilly district administration has given orders to implement it strictly.
“Government employees and officers should wear formal attire to make them look like they are officers. Those who have to wear casual can wear them outside. Earlier, a written order was issued several times for the dress code. They were asked to wear formal attire and not wear jeans and t-shirts in the office,” said District Magistrate Shivakant Dwivedi.
Shivesh Kumar Gupta, the Administrative Officer, hailed the order of the Magistrate and said that employees should wear formal clothes in the office.”There is a provision of dress code in advance that the normal dress is worn in the office and this is not a new thing. All the seniors in the office come in formal attire, but they never wear jeans. Some of our new colleagues wear jeans and t-shirts sometimes, but they have also been instructed and they are managing this very well. So everyone is happy with the dress code, and we are not feeling anything different. We are also not feeling forced. This is a good decision as everyone should come in formal attire,” said Gupta. Rahul Gangwar, an employee at Bareilly District Magistrate’s office, said, “It is a good order. There should be a dress code as we are sitting at the administrative desk. In casual, it doesn’t feel like an office. It’s good for the office as decorum will be maintained.”This is not the first time such orders have been issued by the authorities in any office. Earlier, the Uttarakhand government took similar action. The state government imposed a ban on the wearing of jeans and t-shirts in all government offices.