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| Employees fudging biometric attendance; 442 caught in Ramban district | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 18: Hibbitual of not attending their offices, some “over-smart” government employees have been trying to hoodwink higher-ups by using their mobile phones or laptops to fraudulently mark their attendance from their homes by violating Aadhaar-Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS).
A week after higher-ups of the Education Department identified some employees who were fraudulently marking their attendance from homes through their mobile phones, Deputy Commissioner Ramban has ordered an inquiry against 442 employees of different departments who were marking their bio-matric attendance from mobile phones or laptops.
Identifying 442 employees from the Ramban district is just the tip of the iceberg, tempering of biometric attendance is going unabated in many departments with the connivance of Drawing and Disbursing officers (DDOs).
After detecting some employees who are marking their biometric attendance through fraudulent means, Deputy Commissioner Ramban has ordered the withholding of the salaries of such erring employees.
During random monitoring of biometric attendance of various employees in the departments like School Education, Health, Sheep and Animal Husbandry, Fisheries, Agriculture, Child Welfare Committee Ramban, Sheep and Wool Development Office Banihal, Chief Agriculture Offtce (including Subdivision Ramban/ Gool), it has been observed that employees are marking their biometric attendance away from their offices/ schools by using their mobile phones.
It was observed that a far greater number of employees are fudging their biometric attendance by using mobile phones, for which activation codes are being shared by their respective Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs).
From the scrutiny of the gaps observed in the marking of biometric attendance, it has been found that the majority of the DDOs seem to be in connivance with the aforesaid employees.
The perusal of biometric attendance data which has been analyzed dearly indicates that marking biometric attendance by using mobile phones is impossible unless activation codes are shared with each one of them.
The UT exchequer has suffered losses as these employees have drawn their salaries for not having performed their official duties.
Taking serious note of the nexus of tempering biometric attendance, Deputy Commissioner Ramban directed DDOs to explain their position by 4.00 pm on 19.05.2023 positively and share details of persons/employees involved in this fraud which is primarily aimed at facilitating the employees to play truant from their official duties, failing which action under rules shall be initiated against DDOs and the employees who are marking their attendance by using their mobiles/laptops aided by DDOs sharing activation codes of their respective office location.
Till further orders, no DDOs of the aforesaid departments as well as the employees caught marking their biometric attendance through mobile phones shall draw their salaries.
Further, DOOs in District Ramban are hereby directed to share device IDs/ details of the employees who are either marking their biometric attendance through laptops or mobiles, enabling this office to proceed further in the matter. |
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