Odisha: Govt Departments Allowed to Decide Scale of Operations to Reduce Number Employees at Office
Bhubaneswar: Amid spike in COVID-19 cases, the Odisha Government has allowed its departments to decide the scale of operations so as to further reduce the number of employees who will attend office. In extreme cases, the office may be closed for the purpose of disinfection or function with only skeletal staff in order to ensure [...]
Bhubaneswar: Amid spike in COVID-19 cases, the Odisha Government has allowed its departments to decide the scale of operations so as to further reduce the number of employees who will attend office.
In extreme cases, the office may be closed for the purpose of disinfection or function with only skeletal staff in order to ensure that essential works do not suffer. Officers/ staff who are not attending office and have been provided VPN shall work from home. They must be available to attend to any office work of urgent nature, on short notice and be available on telephone at all times, said an official statement.
There has been large scale outbreak of Covid in some departments/ heads of offices in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. It is essential to take immediate corrective action to stop further spread of infections in offices.
“In view of the above, it has been decided that keeping in view the number of employees infected, the departments shall be at liberty to decide the scale of operations so as to further reduce the number of employees who will attend office”, the statement reads.
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