Five senior officers and 28 employees of Punjab Social Security and Women and Child Welfare Department were found absent by a special raiding team of personnel department that conducted a surprise check in the office during morning hours on Tuesday.
The surprise checking was conducted by the team consisted of Special Secretary Personnel Gurpreet Kaur Sapra and Special Secretary General Administration Manjit Singh Narang on the instruction of Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal. “Five officers including two deputy directors, one DCFA and two CDPOs were found absent. 28 other employees were also found absent during the surprise check,” said an official. Taking a serious view of lax attitude of the employees not maintaining their punctuality despite repeated instructions and advisories, the official said instructions have been issued to head of the department to issue show cause notice to all erring officer and employees and in the absence of any satisfactory reply from them, strict action under civil service rules be initiated against them.
He said that such inspections shall be conducted in future also and any kind of irregularity in official work and absenteeism would not be tolerated.