Government Employees to attend office on all working days without any exemption
F.No.11013/9/2014-Estt.A. III
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
(Department of Personnel and Training)
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North Block, New Delhi
Dated the 13th February, 2021
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject:
Preventive measures to contain the spread of Novel Coronavirus
(COVID-19) – Attendance of Central Government officials regarding.
The
undersigned is directed to refer to OM of even number dated the 7th
October, 2020 whereby orders regulating the attendance of Central
Government employees were issued.
2.
Ministry of Home Affairs has issued detailed guidelines on containment
of COVID-19 on 27th January, 2021, in order to maintain caution and to
strictly follow the prescribed containment strategy, focused on
surveillance, containment, caution and strict observance of the
guidelines. In view of this, the matter has now been re-considered and
it has been decided as under :-
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(a)
The Government servants at all levels are to attend office on all
working days without any exemption to any category of employees.
(b)
The officers/staff shall follow staggered timings to avoid
over-crowding in offices/workplaces as decided by the Heads of
Department.
(c)
All officers/staff residing in the containment zone shall be exempted
from coming to offices till the containment zone is de-notified. These
officers/staff who are residing in the Containment Zone shall work from
home and shall be available on telephone and electronic means of
communications at all times.
(e) Biometric attendance shall continue to be suspended until further orders.
(f)
Meetings, as far as possible, may continue to be conducted with
video-conferencing and personal meetings with visitors, unless
absolutely necessary in public interest, are to be avoided.
3.
A Standard Operating Procedure (SoP) on preventive measures to contain
spread of COVID-19 in offices, issued by the Ministry of Health &
Family Welfare on 13.2.2021, is also available at https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/SOPonpreventivemeasurestocontainspreadofCOVID19inoffices.pdf
All Ministries/Departments/Offices as well as the Central Government
employees are directed to ensure strict compliance of instructions
issued by MHA, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and DoP&T,
from time to time, on regular sanitization/cleaning of workplaces,
maintenance of social distancing norms, wearing of masks and health
& hygiene practices etc.
4 The above instructions shall be in force with immediate effect until further orders.
Sd/-
(Umesh Kumar Bhatia)
Deputy Secretary to the Govt. of India
TO,
1. All the Ministries/Departments, Government of India
2. PMO/Cabinet Secretariat
3. PS to Hon’ble MOS(PP)
4. PSO to Secretar, Persone For Information
5. Sr. Tech. Dir., NIC, DoP&T
