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| Thin attendance in offices as employees continue to celebrate Eid | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Oct 8: The attendance in government offices continues to be very thin even as the flood waters have completely receded from the low lying areas and the life is slowly limping back to normal. Though today was a working day and all the government offices were supposed to remain open and function normally, the attendance was very thin as not many people resumed their duties after the Eid break of three days. Even employees of essential service departments too chose to remain abscent and continued to celebrate Eid. Attendance in health institutions, power development department, Public Health engineering Departments and other important departments was very low.
When asked as to why he did not go to the office today, a senior official said that his sister's house got damaged in the floods in Karan Nagar area and he was duty bound to take care of her children.
No doubt people including government servants have suffered immensely due to floods but does that mean the employees will not resume their offices even after a month after the floods. There are hundreds of government employees who say their offices got damaged due to floods. True, dozens rather scores of buildings housing government offices remained submerged under flood waters for days together. But is it valid reason to remain abscent? Actually the present political dispensation has lost the authority to govern and its employees have no interest in performing their duties. No body is hold accountable for what he is doing and no body is their to account for what the people face. The routine files are pilling up on every table in the civil secretariat and the thin attendence of the secretariat employees only suggests that there will be hardly any normal work in the offices before the offices would move to Jammu by end of this month.
A government contractor had a very shocking story to tell. " I had a contract in J&K cable car corporation and had completed the work some six months back, the authorities released some payment on completion but withheld a good amount for six months. Before Eid I requested the authorities to release the second installment. By hook or crook I got the papers completed but on the day of payment the accounts clerk was abscent and I could not get the payment even though every body from junior engineer to managing director had approved my bill" said the contractor adding that he could not even buy bakery for his family. The point is that the administrative inertia is only compounding the problems of the people who have now lost the last hope. |
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