Show-cause notices have been slapped on 54 Uttarakhand IAS officers for skipping flag-hoisting ceremony on August 15.
Additional secretaries, one principal secretary, five secretaries-in-charge and two secretaries are among those served the notice. The notice gives an opportunity to officials to list the reasoning for their absence at the earliest. In case the reasons given are found unsatisfactory, the state government may make an adverse entry in the annual confidential report (ACR) of the officers concerned.
It is said that only 10 IAS officers were seen present during the main flag-hoisting event organized in the state at Parade Ground in Dehradun. This made state CM Rawat furious and he announced "stringent action against all those who were missing from the flag-hoisting ceremony without a valid reason".