Operation clean-up: VRS for corrupt officials, warns UP CM

In a major clean-up operation, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Thursday cracked the whip on corrupt officials, saying they would be forced to take voluntary retirement.

"There is no place for corrupt officials and staff in the government... Action must be taken against such officials by forcing them to take voluntary retirement," an official release quoted him as saying at a meeting here to review the work of the Secretariat Administration Department.

Chairing another review meeting of the Home department, Adityanath also warned corrupt police officials saying, "Officials who cannot work in an honest manner with the policing system, should be forced to take voluntary retirement. The official who does not take interest in working, is a burden and a blot on the police uniform, they should be given the voluntary retirement. Corrupt police personnel will either go to their home or to jail."