60% of staff comes late; Many avoid work
Hyderabad: The Telangana government is desperately trying to usher in discipline among its employees and officers. In an internal assessment by the government recently, it was found that over 60 per cent of the staff are habitually coming late, there are absentees and employees are not discharging their duties properly.
The TRS government is upset that despite hiking salaries of staff by 43 per cent, giving special T-increment and other benefits, employees continue to be unpunctual and negligent in their duties against their assurance during T-agitation that they would work for extra for development of TS.
There is a general impression that TS staff takes TRS government for granted given their rapport with government heads right from the CM to ministers, thanks to their active participation in T-agitation along with them.
Though IT minister K.T. Rama Rao and irrigation minister T. Harish Rao tried to change this mindset among employees by conducting surprise inspections in offices in the beginning, they too stopped them later under pressure from employees’ leaders.
However, of late, the government has realised that this lack of seriousness among employees was adversely affecting government administration besides denting its image among the public.
With this, the government ordered a ‘secret assessment’ of staff in July and Aug. by an independent agency. It was found that while office hours in the Secretariat, is from 10.30 am to 5 pm, 60 per cent of the staff occupy their chairs only after 11.30 am and start leaving from 4 pm.
Even in these four working hours, it was found that 50 per cent of the staff takes tea breaks or engage in chatting.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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