Ghaziabad:
The principle gates of the Ghaziabad Improvement Authority had been shut at about 10.15am on Wednesday, and practically 40 primary employees waited outdoors earlier than they had been allowed entry. They had been allowed to enter solely after an inventory of their names and departments was ready. (Sakib Ali/HT PHOTO)
The Ghaziabad Improvement Authority (GDA) has determined to take stern motion on staff who flip up late for work and has additionally directed the finance division to carry a day’s wage in case an worker is discovered coming late to workplace, officers conscious of the matter stated.
The highest brass of the GDA have requested the officers and employees to make sure strict compliance with workplace timings and have additionally directed that there must be strict adherence to the biometric attendance system.
The principle gates of the authority had been shut at about 10.15am on Wednesday, and practically 40 primary employees waited outdoors earlier than they had been allowed entry. They had been allowed to enter solely after an inventory of their names and departments was ready.
“All the 40 staff were then allowed entry and attended work. The GDA vice-chairperson has directed the finance department to hold a day’s salary for them. After this incident, latecomers have started adhering to office timings and generally get in by 10am to 10.15am. Further, they are regularly complying with the biometric attendance within the scheduled office opening time. The time for exiting and punching the biometric exit is a minimum of 5pm or later,” stated Rudresh Shukla, assistant engineer and media coordinator, GDA.
GDA officers stated that the vice-chairperson is recurrently monitoring the attendance of employees and has directed the departmental heads to watch timings and guarantee strict compliance of self-discipline and attendance.
“The action on Wednesday had a positive effect and all employees are now coming on time. The officers and departmental heads are regular in attending the office, and so far, no complaint against the officers has come to light,” Shukla added.
In line with officers, compliance in reference to common official work and well timed attendance is required since GDA faces a scarcity of officers and employees, and this causes delay in finishing up routine work, building, and actions of enforcement, amongst others.
In line with official knowledge, the authority at present has 65 vacancies for assistant engineers (civil) and 25 vacancies for assistant engineers (electrical energy), respectively. That is in opposition to the sanctioned 91 and 21 posts. Equally, the authority has 5 vacant posts for superintending engineers in opposition to the sanctioned variety of eight posts.
The authority throughout its board assembly on August 5 had put ahead a proposal and cleared one other for hiring of retired authorities officers to refill vacant posts. The proposal acknowledged that in opposition to the sanctioned 180 posts for various officers, the authority has a present deployment of solely 68 officers whereas there may be a direct requirement of 41 extra.