Question : AUSTERITY IN EXPENDITURE .

(a) whether the Government have issued instructions to all the Ministers to strictly enforce `fiscal prudence` and set a personal example by practising `austerity` in their `official lives` to curb the non-developmental expenditure;

(b) whether any code of conduct has been laid down for the Central Ministers in this regard;

(c) if so, the details thereof;

(d) whether any follow up of these instructions are also being made; and

(e) if so, the details in this regard ?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS

( SHRI I.D. SWAMI )

(a)to(e): The Prime Minister has recently written to the Union Ministers emphasising the need to follow scrupulously the guidelines in regard to fiscal prudence and austerity which have been issued from time to time.