KOLKATA: With easing of lockdown restrictions, Kolkata Municipal Corporation now wants to ensure 100% attendance of its employees from Monday.
The municipal commissioner on Saturday issued a circular to this effect amid resentment from a section of KMC employees' associations. They believed that the circular was a violation of the civic body's earlier order, which directed the use of prudence while instructing the employees to resume work amid difficulties for non-availability of mass transport modes.
But, Saturday's circular stated that any violation of the order will invite penal action. "We will mark an employee absent if he/she fails to turn up at the headquarters or at the respective borough offices," said a senior official. According to the official, the authorities will keep an eye on employees who work in essential services department, such as health, conservancy, water supply, sewage and drainage. "If they remain absent we will also seek an explanation," he said.
The municipal commissioner on Saturday issued a circular to this effect amid resentment from a section of KMC employees' associations. They believed that the circular was a violation of the civic body's earlier order, which directed the use of prudence while instructing the employees to resume work amid difficulties for non-availability of mass transport modes.
But, Saturday's circular stated that any violation of the order will invite penal action. "We will mark an employee absent if he/she fails to turn up at the headquarters or at the respective borough offices," said a senior official. According to the official, the authorities will keep an eye on employees who work in essential services department, such as health, conservancy, water supply, sewage and drainage. "If they remain absent we will also seek an explanation," he said.
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