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Monday, February 2, 2015

Biometric attendance: Defence Ministry officials among top defaulters

 NEW DELHI: The Defence Ministry has topped the list of government  organisations whose employees have defaulted in marking their attendance through  Aadhaar-enabled biometric system.

Most of the employees of 27  departments and organisations affiliated to the Defence Ministry and nine each  from Finance, and Information and Broadcasting Ministries have not been marking  their attendance through the electronic system introduced by the NDA government. 

In light of this, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has, in an order,  asked department heads to direct their employees to mark attendance on biometric  systems.

A data on employees of 169 central government offices marking  and not-marking their attendances has also been issued with the DoPT order. 

The data, which has been prepared by the Department of Information and Technology,  showed that none out of the 540 employees of DRDO was marking attendance.
 

The attendance number is zero for Engineer-in-Chief having 746 employees, Additional Directorate General Personnel Services with 150  strength and History Division with a staff strength of 20. All these departments  function under the Ministry of Defence.

Of the total of 736 registered  employees in DoPT, only 576 were marking their attendances, it said. A total of  2133, 761, 750 employees of Railways, Department of Revenue and Niti Ayog  (though the list mentioned office name as Planning Commission) respectively were marking their attendance electronically. 

None out of 419 employees registered with the Office of Registrar  General and Census   Commissioner  under Home Ministry and OS   Directorate (Army) with 70 registered personnel had marked their attendance   through the system, as per the data.

There are 2830, 1080, and 971   registered employees respectively in these departments.

Also, none of the 195 registered employees of National Investigation Agency  (NIA) were filing their attendance through the system, it said.

The  Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the official record keeper  for attendance of all the central government employees, recorded 78 per cent  presence of employees on biometric system with 748 out of 958 using this  technology.

Similarly, there were many employees in various departments who were defaulting  in marking attendance through the biometric system, according to the data.

The Centre had late last year decided to use an Aadhaar enabled biometric  attendance system in all its offices, including attached or subordinate,  across the country.

"All employees are, therefore, required to register  themselves in the system and mark their attendance. Instructions already exist  for dealing with  cases of late attendance or unauthorised absence, which may be followed.

"It is requested that necessary directions may be issued to all  employees to mark their attendance in BAS portal on regular basis," a recent  order issued by the DoPT said.

The biometric attendance system is only  an enabling platform. There is no change in the instructions relating to office  hours, late attendance etc which will continue to apply, according to another  DoPT order.

As per existing instructions, half-a-day's casual leave should be debited for  each day of late attendance, but late attendance up to an hour, on not more than  two occasions in a month, and for justifiable reasons may be condoned by the  competent authority.

"Disciplinary action may also be taken against  government servants who are habitually late. Early leaving is also to be treated  in the same manner as late coming," the instructions said.

There are  about 31 lakh central government employees working across the country

Source :
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/

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