With Covid-19 cases shooting up across Chhattisgarh, the government on Thursday suggested to officials and employees of the Secretariat and Directorate to come to working in their own vehicles as much as possible to protect their families from corona infection.
The Secretary of the Chhattisgarh General Administration Department (GAD) said that officers and employees come to the office together in buses but maintaining social distancing in buses is not possible, an official statement said.
In such a situation, there is a possibility of infecting others with coronavirus, it said.
All the Secretaries and heads of all the departments have been informed that there is no compulsion for officials and employees to come to work in buses provided by the government, the statement said.
The officers and employees have been suggested to come to the office in their personal vehicles as per the duty roster to check the spread of .
Attendance in officers and employees has been reduced to one-third as per the weekly roster by the government due to the corona epidemic.