Bio-metric attendance system soon for employees of urban ministries
Bio-metric attendance system soon for employees of urban ministries
Cleanliness and maintenance of Nirman Bhawan improves since last inspection of Shri Venkaiah Naidu
Shri Naidu makes second surprise check today; takes a serious view of late coming and absenteeism
Minister of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu today made a surprise check of NirmanBhawan where the Ministries of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation are located. He went around various floors and rooms for over an hour from 9.10am.
Shri Naidu has noted perceptible improvement in the cleanliness and maintenance of NirmanBhawan since his last such inspection on June 12, 2014. He however, noted that personnel at lower rungs like section heads and supporting staff in large number did not report for work in time and took a serious view of the same. Names of late comers were noted.
During the inspection, Shri Naidu was accompanied by Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary(Urban Development) and other senior officials of both the ministries.
Discussing the state of affairs later with the senior officials of the Ministries, Shri Venkaiah Naidu issued the following directions:
1.All Joint Secretaries of the two ministries shall visit their respective establishments every day for a week to monitor attendance and find out chronic offenders;
2.Necessary and immediate action to be taken against those who report late for work;
3. Attendance Registers to be withdrawn fifteen minutes after ‘due time of reporting’ and late comers to be marked absent for the day and not to be paid for the same; and
4. Bio-metric attendance markers to be put in place expeditiously and attendance to be monitored strictly.
Shri Shankar Aggarwal, Secretary(UD) has assured the Minister that through various measures as suggested by the Minister, punctuality would be enforced within two weeks.
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Comments
Major portion of common people are residing in far ends of the city/NCR and totally dependent on public transport. The statistics says 25 Lakh vehicles are running on Delhi roads. Metro is the only relief which is also getting overcrowded day by day. And there has always been a dual standard in the timings of parliament and govt offices. Working time of parliament is 11.00 AM to 06.00PM where as the timing of govt offices is 09.00 AM to 05.30PM.
Instead of finding solutions to the en-number of problems the era of good governance has jumped in-to one point agenda of maintaining punctuality. What the peoples' expectation was quite different , due attention to un-attended areas, gradual but steady solutions to the problems, from the dynamic new govt through the moto of good governance and not the old outdated method of checking attendance registers.
No doubt punctuality is to be maintained but not by adopting onesided measures but by adopting uniform standards for all institutions including parliament and ofcourse introducing flexy timing as has been recommended by the 6th pay commission.
Any way the resentment on discrimination on dual standards will definitively reflect in coming elections.