In a first-of-its-kind initiative, around 4000 field employees of Chandigarh’s civic body will be under strict monitoring from now onwards.
To keep a check on the irregularities in attendance of different field staff in the city, the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh has introduced GPS-enabled Human Efficiency Tracking System (ImTrac).
The objective of the GPS-enabled wrist watches include recording attendance of field staff shift-wise, prevention and control of misuse of manual attendance system, maintaining transparency, accountability in operations and weeding out of the fake, duplicate, and false workers, saidKK Yadav, Commissioner, MCC.
Yadav wore the first watch and then tied it up on the wrists of employees of various wings.
Rs 18 lakh has been spent to procure the wrist watches for the employees. The employees under the MC’s watch include 2,400 safai karamcharis (sanitation workers), 1,000 work munshis and 600 gardeners besides labourers in various departments.
The MC Commissioner said often, citizens and even councilors complain about workers irregular attendance in the field. Under the new system, attendance will be taken ward-wise at the work location and updated immediately from the field using GPS networks daily on a real-time basis, he said.
He further said that it improves the management to balance the under or over utilize the resources based on geographic demand. It will completely replace the old manual based attendance system and increase the production of workforce without any new deployment of additional workforce.
The attendance will be calculated based on the number of shifts attended by the worker and will be consolidated for the entire month. Under the current system, the attendance of field staff of various wings is being recorded one or two times in a day, he said.