Mayor's staff skip biometric attendance

JAIPUR: The Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) had initiated a bio-metric system of recording employees’ attendance to check absenteeism on June 20. While 500 people, including the chief executive officer Rajesh Yadav, are recording their attendance biometrically, 19 employees working as the personal staff at the mayor’s residence in various capacities have shunned the system.
These employees include an assistant engineer, two stenographers, a personal assistant, seven junior clerks besides gunmen, cleaners, sweeper, peons and contractual labourers.
“Even before the system of attendance could be implemented in toto, there are a few employees who are not recording their attendance biometrically. This is because they are working as personal staff at the mayor’s residence despite clear instructions from the CEO. But this might come as a piece of bad news to them that they might not receive their salary cheques at the end of this month,” said an official.
“Ever since the biometric system was put in place at the JMC’s head office at Lal Kothi, all employees have been recording attendances twice a day, including the CEO, deputy mayor’s staff and all zonal commissioners.
While the CEO of JMC had made it mandatory for all employees to record attendance twice a day to improve functioning of the corporation, the list available with TOI shows that 19 employees are not doing so. And the list of personal staff at the mayor’s house besides causing delay in urban development work, costs the corporation exchequer monthly Rs 405,716.
Mayor Jyoti Khandelwal says, “I have asked for relaxation in biometric attendance and the salary of people working with me will not be deducted. I don’t remember the exact number of people attached to my department but they are working in various capacities.”