DoPT – Closure of Office/Buildings surroundings RP Bhawan in connection with AT HOME FUNCTION on the occasion of Independence Day Celebrations 2019

DoPT – Closure of Office/Buildings surroundings RP Bhawan in connection with AT HOME FUNCTION on the occasion of Independence Day Celebrations 2019

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F. No. 12/10/2016-JCA2
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
JCA Section

North Block, New Delhi
Dated 2nd August, 2019

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Subject: Closure of Office/Buildings surroundings RP. Bhawan in connection with AT HOME FUNCTION on the occasion of Independence Day Celebrations 2019 – regarding.

The Anti-Sabotage Checks are required to be done in the buildings (as per list enclosed), before AT HOME FUNCTION at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 15.08.2019 evening. These buildings will have to be vacated by 0900 hours on 15.08.2019, so that rooms are sealed after regular Anti-Sabotage checks are completed. It has therefore been decided that the Government Offices located in the buildings in the Annexure to this OM would be closed by 0900 hours on 15.08.2019 (Thursday).

Hindi version will follow.

Encl. As above.

(Jugal Singh)
Deputy Secretary to the Government of India
Tel. No. 2309 2338

To ,

1.     All Ministries / Departments of the Government of India
2.     All Officers and Sections in the Department of Personnel and Training and all Attached Subordinate Offices of DoPT
3.     UPSC/ CVC/ C&AG/ Lok Sabha Sectt./ Rajya Sabha Sectt./ Supreme Court/ High Court/ Central Adminis trative Tribunal/ Election Commission of India/ Niti Ayog / Central Vigilance Comrnission/ NDMC

Copy for information to:

1.     President’s Secretariat
2.     Vice President’s Secretariat
3.     Prime Minister’s Office
4.     PS to Cabinet Secretary
5.     PS to Home Minister
6.     PS to Secretary (P)
7.     Ministry of Home Affairs
8.     Cabinet Secretariat Chairman, DTC, IP, Estate, New Delhi for necessary action
9.     Ministry of Defence (Ceremonials)
10.     Office of Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi District), New Delhi.

LIST OF BUILDINGS /OFFICES TO BE CLOSED FOR INDEPENDENCE
DAY-2019 (AT HOME)

ON 15.08.2019 AT 0900 HRS

Sl. No. LOCATION AREA

1.     SOUTH BLOCK Pt. Street
2.     NORTH BLOCK Pt. Street
3.     RAIL BHAWAN Pt. Street
4.     KRISHI BHAWAN Pt. Street
5.     SHASTRI BHAWAN Pt. Street
6.     NATIONAL ARCHIVES Pt. Street
7.     SANCHAR BHAWAN Pt. Street
8.     SBI BUILDING Pt. Street
9.     TRANSPORT BHAWAN Pt. Street
10.     PTI BUILDING Pt. Street
11.     PRASAR BHARTI/AIR Pt. Street
12.     SENA BHAWAN South Avenue
13.     VAYU BHAWAN South Avenue
14.     VIGYAN BHAWAN South Avenue
15.     VIGYAN BHAWAN ANNEXE South Avenue
16.     UDYOG BHAWAN South Avenue
17.     NIRMAN BHAWAN South Avenue
18.     JAWAHAR tAL NEHRU BHAWAN (MEA OFFICE) South Avenue
19.     ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA South Avenue
20.     HUTM.ENTS ON MOTI LAL NEHRU MARG OPP. VAYU BHAWAN South Avenue
21.     LOK NAYAK BHAWAN South Avenue
22.     HUTMENTS (MoD OFFICE) DARASIKOH ROAD South Avenue
23.     DRDO BHAWAN South Avenue
24.     KASHMIR HOUSE South Avenue
25.     AKBARBHAWAN South Avenue
26.     NDMCTOWER Con. Place
27.     TALKATORA STADIUM AND ANNEXE BUILDING N.Avenue
28.     SHYAMA PRASAD MUKHERJEE STADIUM N. Avenue
29.     VSNL BUILDING BK Road
30.     STC BUILDING BK Road

Source: DoPT

Biometric Attendance System - Compulsory for all employee

 Jammu and Kashmir : Biometric Attendance System - Compulsory for all employees

Government of Jammu and Kashmir
Civil Secretariat Finance Department

Subject: Biometric Attendance System - Compulsory for all employees.

Government Order No: 288-F of 2018 Dated; 22-06-2018

In order to ensure punctuality in the Government Offices/ Establishments, it has been decided to immediately implement Biometric Attendance System with immediate effect. Accordingly, the following directions are issued for strict compliance by all concerned:

2. For all Government employees/ persons drawing salary, wages, honorarium etc.

a) No salary or wages would be drawn in favour of the Government employees of any category for the month of June 2018 onwards unless they have enrolled themselves in Biometric System (Aadhar not mandatory).

b) The above applies also to all the PSU employees, Contractual/ consolidated/ casual workers or any other type of persons drawing wages in any form from the public exchequer.

c) It will be the duty of the concerned DDOs to ensure enrolment before 30th June, 2018 and furnish a certificate for the same along the Salary / Wage Bill presented in the Treasury, without which the Treasury Officers are directed not to entertain any Salary( Wage bill.

d) From 22nd June, 2018 onwards, the marking of attendance in the system would be compulsory for all categories of employees and wage earners. Only after the scrutiny of monthly attendance, the DDOs would prepare Salary/Wage bill and certificate would accordingly be furnished alonwith the bill to the Treasuries concerned.

e) The Administrative Secretaries/ HoDs/DDOs of various Departments/Corporations shall ensure installations of desktop based (low cost) Biomatric Attendance System/
Machines in their respective offices at an earliest by purchasing the same at DGS&D rates or through GeM Portal out of OE/ ‘Machinery and Equipment’ Head.

f) Information Technology Department and NIC Centres in each district are directed to provide necessary guidance and support for its implementation.

3. All officers/ employees are also directed not to leave their place of posting either on tour or for personal reasons without written permission from their respective Heads of offices. Any violation thereof will automatically attract disciplinary proceedings.

4. All Administrative Secretaries and HoDs within their Departments and Deputy Commissioners in their respective jurisdictions shall be responsible for full compliance of the above instructions.

By Order of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir.

S/d,
(Navin K. Choudhary), IAS
Principal Secretary to Government,
Finance Department.

Violation of DoPT guidelines

Violation of DoPT guidelines 

Central Secretariat Manual of Office Procedure (CSMOP) lays down broad procedures for process management in the Central Secretariat. The CSMOP does not contain any provision for initiating disciplinary action against an official for non-compliance of procedure laid down in the CSMOP. It is for the concerned Central Secretariat office to take action against its officials, under the relevant Conduct Rules of service. Information relating to disciplinary action taken by Central Government offices against their officials for not following the procedure of CSMOP is not centrally maintained.

This was stated by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Dr. Anupam Hazra in the Lok Sabha today.

Modernization of government offices

Modernization of government offices

The modernization, computerization & digitization of paper based records is a continuous ongoing process in the Government of India. The Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DAR&PG), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions does not maintain any centralized data/information relating to it. However, as part of an overall process of administrative reforms, the DAR&PG has been implementing a scheme for ‘Modernization of Central Government Offices’ based in Delhi since year 1987-88. Under the scheme funds are released by DAR&PG for financing 75% costs of the modernization projects, which involves civil & electrical works and acquisition of furniture, computers & electronic office equipment. Till date DAR&PG has extended financial assistance of Rs.72.40 crore for 453 modernization proposals.

The DAR&PG has the mandate to implement e-Office in all Central Ministries/Departments. As on 15.11.2016, 9 Central Ministries/Departments are on 100% e-Office platform, 14 additional Ministries/Departments are going to be 100% e-Office by 31.12.2016 and further 32 Ministries/Departments by 31st March, 2017. This also is a continuous ongoing exercise.

This was stated by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Dr. Jitendra Singh in written reply to a question by Shri M. Chandrakasi in the Lok Sabha today.

Concessions and Facilities to Differently Abled Employees

Concessions and Facilities to Differently Abled Employees

Facilities to Differently Abled at Government Offices

The Department of Personnel and Training has informed that as per information submitted on-line by 71 Departments/Ministries, as on 01.01.2013, there were 9341 number of persons with disabilities who were employed in the Departments/Ministries of the Central Government. State/UT-wise information is not compiled.

As per section 46 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of justifys and Full Participation) Act, 1995, the appropriate Governments and the local authorities are required to provide for-

(a) ramps in public buildings;

(b) adaptation of toilets for wheel chair users;

(c) braille symbols and auditory signals in elevators or lifts;

(d) ramps in hospitals, primary health centers and other medical care and rehabilitation institutions.

All the Ministries/Departments have been requested to comply with this provision. The Ministry of Railways provides concessional fare for various classes of persons with disabilities as under:

S.No.	Category of Persons	Percentage of Concession
1	Orthopaedically Handicapped/Paraplegic persons who cannot travel without escort –for any purpose	75% in 2nd, Sleeper, 1st Class, 3AC, AC chair Car50% in 1AC and 2AC 25% in 3AC & AC Chair Car of Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains 50% in Monthly Season Ticket & Quarterly Season Ticket One escort is also eligible for same element of concession
2	Mentally retarded persons who cannot travel without escort- for any purpose.
3	Blind persons travelling alone or with an escort- for any purpose
4	Deaf & Dumb persons (both afflictions together in the same person) travelling alone or with an escort- for any purpose.	50% in 2nd , Sleeper and 1st Class50% in Monthly Season Ticket & Quarterly Season Ticket One escort is also eligible for same element of concession.

Similarly, State Governments have their own schemes for providing concessional fare for persons with disabilities while traveling by the buses owned by State transport undertakings.

As per Section 33 of the Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of justifys and Full Participation) Act, 1995, every appropriate Government are required to appoint in every establishment such percentage of vacancies not less than three per cent for persons or class of persons with disability of which one per cent each is reserved for persons suffering from blindness or low vision; (ii) hearing impairment; (iii) locomotor disability or cerebral palsy, in the posts identified for each disability.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha here today.

Source: PIB News

Disciplinary action may be taken against Central Government Employees who are habitual late attendance – Dopt Orders on 22 June 2015

Disciplinary action may be taken against Central Government Employees who are habitual late attendance – Dopt Orders on 22.6.2015

Dopt once again issued orders on the subject of punctuality in Government Offices. The order is directed to take disciplinary action against Central Government employees who are habitual late attendance.

Observance of punctuality in Government Offices – Dopt Orders

G.I., Dept. of Per.& Trg., O.M.No.11013/9/2014-Estt.A-III, dated 22.6.2015

Subject: Observance of punctuality in Government Offices.

Instructions have been issued from time to time with regard to the need to observe punctuality by Government servants. Responsibility for ensuring punctuality in respect of their employees rests within Ministries/ Departments/ Offices.

2. The decision to introduce AADHAR enabled Bio-metric Attendance System (AEBAS) in Central Government offices, including attached/ sub-ordinate offices, to replace the manual system of marking of attendance to ensure punctuality is to be implemented in all Ministries/ Departments. This Department vide O.M. of even no. dated 21.11.2014 and 28.01.2015, while recognizing that the Biometric Attendance System is only an enabling platform had, inter-alia, stated that there was no change in the instructions relating to office hours, late attendance etc.

3. In this connection attention is invited to Rule 3(1)(ii) of CCS (Conduct) Rules, 1964 which stipulates that every Government servant shall at all times maintain devotion to duty. Habitual late attendance is viewed as conduct unbecoming of a Government servant and disciplinary action may be taken against such a Government servant. It is also added that punctuality in attendance is to be observed by Government servants at all levels.

4. It is also requested that the necessary directions may be issued to all employees to mark their attendance in BAS portal on regular basis.

Click to view the original order

Authority: www.persmin.gov.in

Early Closure of Offices in connection with Republic Day Parade and Beating Retreat Ceremony during 2015

Early Closure of Offices in connection with Republic Day Parade and Beating Retreat Ceremony during 2015

Government of India
Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel and Training)

North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 19th January, 2015

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub: Early Closure of Offices in connection with Republic Day Parade and Beating Retreat Ceremony during 2015.

In connection with arrangements for the Republic Day Parade and Beating Retreat Ceremony, 2015, it has been decided that the Government offices located in the buildings indicated in Annexure-I would be closed early at 13:00 hrs. on 25th January, 2015 (Sunday) and buildings indicated in Annexure-II would be closed early at 12:00 Noon on 29th January, 2015 (Thursday).

2. Hindi version will follow.

Encl.: As above

sd/-
(K.Kipgen)
Director (JCA)

Source document from www.persmin.gov.in

Dopt advised to upload ‘Working Hours, Holidays, Public Dealing Hours on the websites of Indian Government

Dopt advised to all Ministries/Departments to post/upload the working hours, holiday list and public dealing hours, if any, on the home page of their websites.

No.13/2/2014-JCA-2
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
(Department of Personnel & Training)

North Block, New Delhi,
Dated the 5th November, 2014

OFFICE MEMORANDUM

Sub.: Posting of Information relating to Working Hours etc. on “Indian Government Websites.”

To make the general public and concerned stakeholders aware of the office timing in Government Offices, Department of Personnel & Training has posted this information on the Home page of its website www.persmin.nic.in. The matter regarding posting/ uploading of “Working Hours” etc. on the Websites of Indian Government has been considered in this Department in order to provide information to the citizens staying/residing abroad who seek Indian Government Websites.

2. All Ministries/Departments are advised to post/upload “Working Hours”, Holidays List and Public dealing hours, if any, on the Home Page of their Web-sites. Offices under these Ministries/ Departments who are having their own website may also be advised accordingly.

sd/-
(Ashok Kumar)
Director (JCA)

Source: www.persmin.gov.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02est/AB.14017_11_2014-Estt-RR.pdf]

Impact of long working hours on people working in Government offices

Impact of long working hours on people working in Government offices

Whether the Government is aware of adverse impact of long working hours on people working in Government offices?

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL,PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS
LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION NO 4169

ANSWERED ON 19.02.2014

    IMPACT OF LONG WORKING HOURS

4169 . Shri ANURAG SINGH THAKUR

Will the Minister of PERSONNEL,PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS be pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Government is aware of adverse impact of long working hours on people working in Government offices and certain Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs);

(b) if so, whether the attention of the Government has been drawn to the statement of the Chief of the New Economic Forum Think Tank according to which the working hours should be reduced to 30 hours to maintain good health and not to put family life at risk;


(c) if so, whether the Government is contemplating to reduce the working hours of Government servants;

(d) if so, the details thereof and the time by which it is likely to reconsider the working hours; and

(e) if not, the reasons therefor?

ANSWER

MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCE AND PENSIONS AND MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE PRIME MINISTER`S OFFICE (SHRI V. NARAYANASAMY)

(a) Government employees working in Central Government administrative offices observe 40 working hours per week in 5 day week system. The 6th Central Pay Commission had separately examined this aspect and observed that since this system provides more time to the employees for rest and recreation while enabling them to fulfil their domestic and social obligations and actually contributes to their physical and mental well-being and consequently to increase of efficiency, it should continue. In the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) the working hours are governed by the appropriate labour laws.

(b) to (e) In view of (a) above, does not arise.