The Centre has
warned all government servants that disciplinary action will be taken against
"habitual late-comers" to office and has asked for officials at all
levels to maintain punctuality.
The government
had introduced Aadhaar enabled Bio-metric Attendance System (AEBAS) in Central
Government offices, including attached/ sub-ordinate offices, last year to
replace the manual system of marking of attendance to ensure punctuality is to
be implemented in all Ministries. "This Department on November 21, 2014
and January 28, 2015 while recognizing that the Biometric Attendance System is
only an enabling platform had, inter-alia, stated that there was no change in
the instructions relating to office hours, late attendance etc," the
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has said in a circular issued to
all ministries today, titled 'Observance of punctuality in office.".
"In this
connection attention is invited to Rule 3(1)(ii) of CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964
which stipulates that every Government servant shall at all times maintain
devotion to duty. Habitual late attendance is viewed as conduct unbecoming of a
Government servant and disciplinary action may be taken against such a
Government servant. It is also added that punctuality in attendance is to be
observed by Government servants at all levels. It is also requested that the
necessary directions may be issued to all employees to mark their attendance in
BAS portal on regular basis," the DoPT circular issued on June 22 says.
It has added
that instructions have been issued from time to time with regard to the need to
observe punctuality by Government servants and the responsibility for ensuring
punctuality in respect of their employees rests within Ministries/ Departments/
Offices.
Nearly 1.3 lakh
central government employees are registering their attendance on the AEBAS
system.
Source:-The
Economic Times
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