Central government employees in various departments, including the prestigious Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), have been found to have not been marking their attendance on biometric system installed in their premises.
In a fresh circular from Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) asking department heads to direct their employees to mark attendance on biometric systems, a list of 169 offices of the central government was annexed with it.
The list, which has been prepared by the Department of Information and Technology, showed that none out of the 540 employees of DRDO was marking attendance.
The attendance number is zero for Engineer-in-Chief having 746 employees, Additional Directorate General Personnel Services with 150 strength and History Division with a staff strength of 20. All these departments function under the Ministry of Defence.
Of the total of 736 registered employees in DoPT, only 576 were marking their attendances, it said. A total of 2133, 761, 750 employees respectively from Railway, Department of Revenue and Niti Ayog (though the list mentioned office name as Planning Commission) were marking their attendance electronically.
None out of 419 employees registered with the Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner under Home Ministry and OS Directorate (Army) with 70 registered personnel had marked their attendance through the system, as per the data.
There are 2,830, 1,080 and 971 registered employees respectively in these departments.
None of the 195 registered employees of National Investigation Agency (NIA) were filing their attendance through the system, it said.
The Department of Electronics and Information Technology, the official record keeper for attendance of all the central government employees, recorded 78 per cent presence of employees on biometric system with 748 out of 958 using this technology.
Similarly, there were many employees in various departments who were defaulting in marking attendance through the biometric system, according to the list.
About 62 per cent employees, or 39,250 out of 63,254 registered employees, in the 169 departments were marking their attendance through the system, according to analysis of the data.
