Section 10.2
The Bhutan Civil Service Rules and Regulations 2006, commonly known as BCSR 2006, consists of 21 Chapters spread over 223 pages. It can be downloaded from the RCSC website. Read it. Now identify the most important provision in the document. Civil servants would probably point to Section 10.2 on page 200 of the BCSR. Section 10.2 states that: “Only one penalty shall be imposed in each case.” Why should Section 10.2 be so important? Because it protects civil servants from undue and excessive administrative authority. When civil servants transgress – when they are undisciplined, when they do not perform,…