All departments of the State Government and sub-ordinate offices in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack shall function with 50% strength of employees (all staffs including Group-A Officers) during the month of November, an official notification said on Friday.
The Departments/Heads of Offices in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack may decide the manner of selection of employees who would attend office, it said.
However, the essential offices/services such as SRC and OSDMA, police, Fire Services, health services, municipal services, etc., shall function in full strength. All precautionary measures to curtail spread of Covid-19 shall be strictly followed by the departments as well as the employees. In case of detection of any Covid case among the employees, the concerned office would follow the protocol issued by the Government, the notification said.
The officers/staffs who have been provided with VPN shall work from home when not assigned roster duty. They must be available to attend to any office work of urgent nature at short notice and be available on telephone at all times.
The administrative departments would decide the scale of operations in subordinate and field offices, it added.All Government offices throughout the State would remain closed on Saturdays.
