Punctuality
and employees
Sir,
We often read in the news
papers regarding surprise visit by the
District and other officers of various
departments nearer to their headquarters
ignoring offices/Institutions of
far-flung/militancy prone areas and
issuing orders for stopage of pay of
those who are late by 10-15 minutes and
even some cases deducting of one day pay
of late comers which is not covered by
rules. As per Govt instructions below
article 133 (a) of civil services rules
to curb such a tendency it has been
decided that half a day's leave (cause or
privilege leave if no casual leave be
due) should he debited to leave account
of a Govt servant for each late
attendance. The Head of office or the
sanctioning authority may, however
condone late attendance upto an hour as a
special case, on not more than two
occasions in a month if he is satisfied
that a Govt. servant could not attend the
office in time for reasons beyond his
control. In case such a course does not
ensure punctual attendance, suitable
disciplinary action may be taken against
habitual late comers, in addition to
debiting of half a day's leave to their
leave account. Further the difficulties
of the employees in general and
particularly in far-flung areas need to
be looked into and removed. The salary of
the employees in such areas remains
withheld for months together for want of
grant. Hence sufficient grant under
respective salary heads need to be
alloted to the concerned well in time.
Yours etc...
B L Balwal
Udhampur
Police and
stress management
Sir,
The State police department
has decided to incorporate stress
management techniques in their training
programmes is a step in right direction,
though a belated one. The State police
and paramilitary forces are working in an
environment where their lives are at
stake. They can be targetted anytime,
anywhere by the militants. The long duty
hours, patrols in remote areas where the
danger of an ambush is always on has
resulted in a peculiar situation for the
police jawan. Sometimes their families
are targetted. The scene of blood,
deadbodies, debris has an adverse effect
on their behavior. After all the police
jawan or officer or any paramilitary
person is a human being first. His needs,
his fears and his emotions are same as
that of any civil person is. The
programme of stress management envisaged
by the concerned authorities for the
state police will help them counter the
threat environment in a better way. This
step is surely a welcome one.
Yours
etc...
Om Parkash Manhas
Nagrota
Jammu
Accidents
galore
Sir,
Hardly any day passes
without the sad news of some accident
taking place in the city. In all these
accidents people are injured or someone
is killed. Take the case of a matador
filled to the brim with people turned
turtle at Patoli Morh recently. Some
people were injured and a life was lost.
In many accidents the drivers or
conductors make good their escape. All
said and done the crux of the matter is
that the gentle, law abiding population
of this city is made to suffer at the
hands of such uncouth drivers. The
question arises why do such accidents
occur? Before passing on the buck to the
authorities or drivers the civil
population has a responsibility too. They
must learn to strictly follow traffic
rules. They should learn to protest if a
driver overloads or overspeeds his
vehicle. As far as traffic department is
concerned their role is too central to be
discussed.
Yours
etc...
Kuldeep Raj Gupta
Trikuta Nagar
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