No biometric attendance system, no salary: Bijnor CDO

BIJNOR: In a bid to ensure punctuality and check fudging of attendance by government employees, Bijnor chief development officer Indramani Tripathi on Friday ordered that if the 36 departments at the Vikas Bhawan here do not get biometric attendance machines installed by September 30, their salary would not be released.

"Instructions to install biometric attendance machines were given soon after the new government came to power in the state. But just five of the 36 departments at the Vikas Bhawan have followed the instruction so far," the CDO said. "Starting October 1, attendance will not be marked on registers and it will be compulsory to mark attendance on biometric machines, failing which salary of the employees will be withheld," he added.

Such machines have been set up in only two departments in the district, where 502 government employees, out of around 24,000, are at present mark their attendance on biometric machines.

According to sources, biometric machines for attendance were installed at the Vikas Bhawan and the collectorate two months back. Ironically, these machines at the collectorate, which has 250 employees, have not been started, and since these are not working, employees are still marking their attendance on registers. The biometric machines at the Vikas Bhawan are working well but most of the employees do not mark their attendance on these.

The departments at the Vikas Bhawan that have not installed biometric machines include District Rural Development Agency, Rural Engineering Services, agriculture, horticulture, cooperative, social development, minority department, soil conservation, District Urban Development Agency and Non-Conventional Energy Development Agency, etc. Besides these, departments such as education, irrigation, forest and power corporation also have not installed biometric attendance machines.

According to data provided by NIC-Bijnor, there are 21 agencies and organisations where 6,743 government employees have been linked and they use biometric machines for attendance in the state. In Bijnor district, two organisations with 502 employees have been connected to the biometric system.

On being asked about the matter, district in-charge of NIC-Bijnor, Nand Kishore, said, "Most of the government departments have not shown any interest in biometric attendance system. These have not installed biometric machines under some pretext or the other. The district magistrate has already issued instructions to all departments regarding the matter."

Ref : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/no-biometric-attendance-system-no-salary-bijnor-cdo/articleshow/60798951.cms