Come to office on time - Govt tells Babus
BASED on a letter from the Cabinet Secretary, the CBDT has written to all the Cadre Controlling Principal Chief Commissioners on the importance of clean and tidy office which gives an air of efficiency and observance of punctuality which is essential for maintenance of office decorum and discipline.
The CBDT directs the field formations that:
1. a. Precincts of each office has to be spic and span.
b. There should be no dust, no old ACs, Almirahs, and old furniture belonging to the office lying around in corridors, or common areas near staircases, and no betel leaf-stained corners.
c. Dustbins should be provided in the rooms, corridors and washrooms for putting waste paper and garbage.
d. The Agency responsible for maintenance of cleanliness and upkeep of office premises should be instructed suitably to provide services of highest standard failing which penal provisions of the contract signed with the agency may be invoked.
e. Services of Civil, Electrical and Horticulture Wings of CPWD should be obtained wherever required, to improve the overall ambience of office buildings consistent with the prevalent green building norms.
f. To give a neat and tidy look to the sections, the officers concerned may also be impressed upon to take special interest in weeding out of obsolete papers/files and to record all closed cases after action on the issues considered thereon has been completed, as per the prescribed retention schedule.
2. a. All the officers and staff working in offices under cadre control of Pr.CCsIT should strictly observe the prescribed office timings.
b. It should be ensured that they do not overstay the lunch break and leave offices early before closing of office hours.
c. No amount of external efforts can bring about improvements in punctuality of the officials on sustained basis unless Heads of Departments themselves take a personal interest in the same and observe the prescribed office hours.
d. Therefore, all HODs may be instructed to conduct regular, unannounced and surprise punctuality checks alongwith checking of attendance registers of the offices to see that the officials are observing office hours meticulously.
e. Habitual latecomers may also be warned to mend their ways failing which disciplinary action may be taken against them.
If you can really implement these lofty instructions, everything else will fall in place. Corridor cleaning will produce better results than cadre review. Let Modi's Clean India campaign begin in his offices.
Hopefully, the CBEC would also be aware of these directives of the Cabinet Secretary and they too will be issuing 'like' instructions in the days to come.