Fifty-two officers and employees of the Water Resources and Public Health Engineering Departments were found absent from their duty in an inspection of the head offices of the two departments conducted by Ganesh Shankar Mishra, Secretary, on Thursday, and have been warned of action.
The inspection followed the instructions of the Chief Secretary, Vivek Dhand, to ensure discipline in government offices.Mishra instructed the officers and employees to remain present in the office during office time from 10 am to 5 pm compulsorily. He said that disciplinary action would be taken against those who remain absent unauthorisedly or without sanction of leave.
Sharp at 10 am Mishra reached the office of the engineer-in-chief, water resources department, and inspected all the rooms in the office. He also made a surprise inspection of the PHED headquarters ‘Neer Bhawan’. While inspecting the engineer-in-chief’s water resources department office, Mishra found 42 officers and employees absent, including the superintending engineer, executive engineer, assistant engineer, sub engineer, accounts officer, superintendent and some other clerical staff.
He asked the engineer-in-chief to ensure the presence of all officers and employees in the office during office hours.In the PHED headquarters, Mishra found 10 officers and employees absent.
He instructed the engineers-in-chief of both the departments to inform officers and employees of their respective offices through ringing electronic alarm right 15 minutes before the start of the office, so that they would be present in their rooms on time.
The Secretary asked the officers of the PHED to keep the public hand pumps and Nal-Jal Yojanas functional during the summer season and said that the department heads would continuously monitor them. Mishra said that he would inspect the divisional and district level offices of both the departments in the near future.