The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) may provide the option for work from home to the eligible officers/staff for 15 days in a year as a matter of policy
Current Affairs : Asserting that central government employees may have to work with staggered attendance and variable working hours, the Personnel Ministry has come out with a draft framework for ‘work for home’ for the staff post-lockdown.
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) may provide the option to work from home to the eligible officers/staff for 15 days in a year as a matter of policy, it said. There are 48,34,000 central government employees.
In a communique to all central government departments, the Personnel Ministry said the Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated many ministries to operate from home to maintain social distancing.
“Many of the ministries/departments in Government of India have successfully managed and rendered exemplary results in combat against the ongoing pandemic outbreak during the lockdown period by leveraging e-office and video conferencing facilities of National Informatics Centre (NIC). This was the first-of-its-kind experience in the Government of India,” it said.
It is quite likely that for the near future, the central secretariat will continue to go for staggered attendance and variable working hours to maintain social distancing at workplace, the ministry said.
Aditi Mehta 