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Centre resumes biometric system, WFH stopped

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New Delhi, Feb 17: The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) has resumed the biometric system for office attendance and stopped the system of ‘work from home’ for every employee of the Central government’s ministries and departments.
In an office memorandum issued on February 16, the DoPT said while referring to the earlier office memorandum on January 31, 2022, “Since the period of suspension of biometric attendance is over on 15.02.2022, all the officers, officials working in this Department are required to mark their attendance in the Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance Control System (AEBAS) with effect from the February 16, 2022.
The latest order also said that while marking their attendance in AEBAS, all officers, officials will follow the preventive measures to contain the spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Soon after the spread of Covid-19 during the third phase this year, the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pension had issued a direction to all the Central Ministries and Departments to reduce the office attendance by 50 per cent.
It may be recalled that earlier, the pregnant women employees and Divyang employees were exempted from attending offices the physical attendance of the government servants below the level of Under Secretary was restricted to 50 per cent of the actual strength. (IANS)

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