New Delhi, July 28 -- Maharashtra government on Monday issued a new set of guidelines for its employees to use social media platforms, warning that employees violating these norms will face action.

The new policy bars the state government employees from criticising the existing or past policies of government in state and other dispensations on social media platform.

The guidelines also warned that employees violating the new norms will face action under the Maharashtra Civil Service Conduct Rules 1979.

"The employees will have to maintain separate accounts for personal and official uses. They are not supposed to use apps that are either banned by the state government or by the Centre," said the Government Resolution (GR).

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