Jammu: A total of 1177 officials and employees were found unauthorisedly absent from duty on Tuesday during surprise inspections by deputy commissioners in various offices across all the ten districts across Jammu province.
The inspections were carried out following orders from Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Dr Raghav Langer.
The Deputy Commissioners of all ten districts had constituted special teams comprising of ADCs/ACR/SDMs and Tehsildars for random checking.
Around 41 offices were even found locked during the inspections especially in District Rajouri Kishtwar, Reasi and Samba.
The Divisional Commissioner Jammu had been receiving several complaints from various quarters regarding absenteeism and lack of punctuality in offices for quite some time; upon which this spree of inspections were carried out across the province today.
A total of around 600 Government offices were inspected by the constituted teams from 10:30 am to 1 pm today; Deputy Commissioners themselves also inspected many offices.
Show cause notices have been served on these absentee officials and employees. Meanwhile, their drawl of salary for the month of August has been withheld. Further action will be contemplated based on the reply submitted by these erring employees in the coming days.
The Divisional Commissioner Jammu has reiterated the stand of the Government that any kind of indiscipline, lack of punctuality and absenteeism shall not be tolerated.
