Avoid casuals: Tamil Nadu govt orders dress code for staff to maintain decorum of office

The dress code orders Tamil Nadu government employees to avoid casual attire and wear clothes that reflect Indian and Tamil culture. The order was issued after the state government

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Tamil Nadu government on Monday came up with a dress code which has to be followed by the Secretariat employees. The order was issued by Chief Secretary Girija Vaidyanathan.

Through a government order, the government has amended the "Tamil Nadu Secretariat Office Manual," mandating the dress code.

The dress code orders Tamil Nadu government employees to avoid casual attire and wear clothes that reflect Indian and Tamil culture. The order was issued after the state government

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As per the new dressing rules issued by the Tamil Nadu government, while on duty, all the state government staff will be donning the attire permissible to them.

Women will have to wear saree/salwar kameez/churidaar with dupatta while they are on government duty, men will have wear shirts with formal pants/veshti (dhoti) or any other Indian traditional dress.

In the previous order, the Tamil Nadu government had not included veshtis.

The order states, "Government Servants are required to wear neat, clean, formal attire that is appropriate to the workplace setting, so as to maintain the decorum of the office, while on duty, like saree or salwar kameez or churidhar with dupatta in the case of female government servants and shirts with formal pants or veshti (dhoti) reflecting Tamil culture or any Indian traditional dress, in the case of male government servants. Casual attire shall be avoided."