"It has come to the government's notice. We have taken a serious view of the matter," state IT and BT Minister S R Patil told reporters, days after CBI found that the internet protocol with kar.Nic.In was extensively used by employees to view pornography, particularly from Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat.
The CBI, according to reports, had stumbled upon the employees preoccupation with watching pornography while monitoring the internet activities in government offices during anti-terror surveillance and sent a report to the state Criminal Investigation Department.
He said he was pained to read reports about employees watching pornography during office hours while they had taken the pledge that 'government work is God's work', words that are inscribed at the portal of Vidhana Soudha.
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