The Delhi Government’s Women and Child Development department has directed its district officers to share their live location through WhatsApp daily to mark their attendance.
Rajendra Pal Gautam, the Minister of women and child development department has warned of action against officers failing to comply with the order issued last month.
The move comes after it was observed that some district officers were sending the status of their live location through text only and also, they were not sharing the location of their field visits.
According to the letter issued by the department, district officers were directed to send their daily attendance, in morning and evening
through live location via WhatsApp in a group created specifically for this purpose since October 5.
“The status of live location sent by various district officers have been analysed.
Hence, all district officers are directed to post their daily arrival and departure attendance through live location as well as field visit location, failing which it would be assumed that the officer is not attending to his or her duty, and
further action would be initiated against the erring officers as per rules,” said the department letter.