New Delhi, June 23: DoPT – The Central Government warned the all government servants to come in time to offices and to ensure punctuality in offices, disciplinary action may take against ones.
The central government observed the habitual late-comers and decided to warn the government servants in this regard. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has directed the Central government ministers to maintain punctuality in government offices. The DoPT said that “Punctuality of an employee in attendance is also observed by the government servants at all levels. Habitual late attendance is observed as conduct becoming of a government servant and disciplinary action will take against those employees”.
There are total 48 lakh central government employees working across the country, as per central government service rules, that every government servant should follow the rules and maintain devotion to duty.
In a step forward to main punctuality, the Centre had introduced Aadhaar enabled Bio-metric Attendance System (AEBAS) in place of manual system of making of attendance in all central government offices including sub-ordinate offices.
The DoPT said that, enabling biometric system in government department is only to major the employee attendance and there is no change in the instructions relating to office hours, late attendance etc. As per exiting instructions half-a-day’s casual leave should be deducted for each day of late attendance. The late attendance upto an hour is acceptable only for two occasions in a month and for justifiable reasons.
The central government is also made a website www.attendance.gov.in to give details about registered employees and those present in the offices on daily basis. As per website details among 1, 29,895 registered employees only, 62, 671 were present today.