Government employees may soon have to mark their attendance through biometrics, which may rob them of the luxury of coming late or even bunking work.
The proposal to have biometric attendance marking in all public departments was mooted by several monitoring agencies including the National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha). The move is aimed at ensuring strict and timely attendance of government employees in various sectors.
The proposal, once implemented, would make it mandatory for all government employees including those working at ministries to mark their attendance through the fingerprinting process. The move comes after monitoring agencies found thousands of staff in various departments abstaining from work.
Nazaha believes that non-adherence to office timings by government employees is a form of corruption that affects work related to citizens and residents. “The government departments should get rid of the old system for recording attendance of their workers,” the proposal said.
At present, employees sign in registers, which can be fudged by others, or they could do it the next day. In many departments, employees sign in for absent colleagues or those who come in late.
Officials of the Control and Investigation Board found several cases of employees abstaining from work during their inspection tours of government offices.
In some departments, the number of employees absent from work was 24 percent of the total workforce. “This has affected the quality of work in these departments and delayed works pertaining to citizens and residents,” a source said.
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