SC drafts guidelines to check overstaying in official houses
Deploring the resistance of government employees, ministers and MPs, and other high dignitaries to vacate the public premises after their retirement or demitting offices, the Supreme Court on Friday issued a slew of guidelines to ensure menace of overstaying is curbed and eligible people get the accommodation timely.
A Bench of Justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi laid down a set of 20 guidelines, detailing the procedure to be followed for different classes of people overstaying in government accommodation, and asked the central, state and Union Territory governments to follow them.
Prescribing a time-frame for vacation of premises, the court said that judges of any forum shall vacate the official residence within a period of one month from the date of superannuation or retirement and this period could be extended by another month after recording sufficient reasons.
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