DoPT Punctualityinstructionsdated15062024Vq6gm
DoPT Punctualityinstructionsdated15062024Vq6gm
DoPT Punctualityinstructionsdated15062024Vq6gm
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Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel and Training
Instructions have been issued by this Department from time to time for observing
punctuality by the Government employees. Responsibility for ensuring punctuality in respect of
their employees rests with the concerned Ministry! Department! Organization (MDO). In this
regard, instructions on implementation of Aadhar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS)
by Ministries/Departments/Organizations (MDOs) have also been issued from time to time. In its
instructions issued by this Department vide OM of even number dated 23rd June, 2023, all the
MDOs were, inter alla, advised to ensure strict implementation of AEBAS and periodically monitor
the marking of attendance to ensure punctuality. However, it has been observed that despite
clear instructions, several employees are not registering their attendance in Biometric Attendance
System (BAS) and some of the employees have been coming late on a regular basis.
2. The matter of strict implementation of AEBAS has recently been reviewed and taking a
serious note of the laxity in implementation of AEBAS, it is hereby reiterated that all MDOs will
regularly monitor the attendance reports of their employees after downloading the same from
the portal (attendance.gov.in). The MDOs will also ensure the following:
a. All employees mark their attendance using AEBAS without fail. This will ensure that there
will be no discrepancy between 'registered' and 'active' employee on AEBAS.
b. In case any employee is not registered over AEBAS, immediate steps should be taken to
register his!her biometric data on BAS portal; MDOs may also reconcile the data of
registered employees on AEBAS with the employee data on other portals such as eHRMS
portal/PFMS portal and the list of employees maintained by the Department.
c. In respect of Divyaang employees, MDOs will make appropriate arrangements for
providing convenient and easily accessible machines for capturing biometrics through
suitable alternative modes.
d. HODs of the MDOs shall sensitize their employees to adhere to the instructions relating to
office hours, late attendance etc. They would download the consolidated report from the
portal on a regular basis and identify the defaulters. Habitual late attendance and early
leaving of office should be viewed seriously and be essentially discouraged. Strict action
against the defaulters may be initiated under the extant GOT rules.
e. MDOs shall ensure that the biometric machines remain functional at all times.
3. Besides above, it may be noted that UIDAI has now rolled out face-based authentication
applications using Android/lOS based phones. The face Authentication offers robust features
like faster authentication, live location detection, geo-tagging, etc. The Nodal Officer of respective
MDO shall configure personal mobile policy in attendance portal for the employees of their
Organizations and get the geo-coordinates fed into the entry locations of the office. The minimum
OS requirements for smart phones would be OS 9.0 or above for Android smartphones and OS
14.0 or above for lOS smartphones. NIC officers and staff of the respective MDOs will facilitate
registration of their Departmental employees on such lOS/android applications.
4. It may kindly be noted that BAS is only an enabling platform and there is no change in
the punctuality instructions relating to Office Hours, late attendance etc. which will continue to
apply. As per extant instructions contained in DOPT OM No. 28034/8/75-Estt(A) dated
04.07.1975; DOPT OM No. 28034/10/75-Estt(A) dated 27.08.1975 and DOPT OM No.
28034/3/82-Ests(A) dated 05.03.1982, half-a-day's Casual Leave (CL) should be debited for each
day of late attendance, but late attendance upto an hour, on not more than two occasions in a
month, and for justifiable reasons may be condoned by the competent authority. In addition to
debiting Casual Leave (or Earned Leave, when no CL is available), disciplinary action may also be
initiated against Government servants coming to office habitually late as it amounts to
'misconduct' under the CCS(Conduct) Rules, 1964. Early leaving is also to be treated in the same
manner as late coming. The data relating to punctuality and attendance of an employee should
also be taken into account, while considering him/her for important assignments, trainings,
deputations and transfers/postings.
5. Secretaries of the Ministries/Departments etc. are, therefore, requested to kindly bring the
contents of these instructions to the notice of their employees and put in place a robust
monitoring mechanism to ensure complete compliance by the employees and initiate suitable
action against the defaulting employees. ç
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