The State government has decided to introduce biometric
attendance system for the Secretariat employees from Saturday.
The Chief Minister, the Chief Secretary,
and every employee working in the Secretariat has to mark his or her attendance
through the biometric system.
e-Pragati
“The biometric attendance
will come into force from Saturday,” Mr. Naidu said on Friday.
“Through the biometric
attendance system, the government intends to record the working hours.
It also wants to bring every department under e-Pragati. Every Tuesday, the
progress and effective implementation of e-Pragati would be reviewed,” he said.
The government has observed that the level
of absenteeism is quite high. In a study, it found that about one-third of the
employees were absent during May.
Since then, the government has been
contemplating taking corrective measures to improve the attendance. In a bid to
enforce full attendance in the Secretariat, the government has been toying with
the idea of biometric watch. But the employees have been resisting it.
Most of the employees haven’t shifted their
families to Vijayawada or Guntur. They have been shuttling between Hyderabad
and Amaravati. As a result, the Secretariat often turns empty by noon every
Friday and the employees turn up late on Monday. Also, one finds vacant tables
in many offices in the Secretariat. The employees keep off their desk on one
pretext or the other.
Ref : http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/biometric-attendance-in-secretariat-from-today/article19694339.ece
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