Absent from work: six employees get notices

CHANDIGARH: Show cause notices were issued to six employees of the Chandigarh Social Advisory Board and UT Red Cross Society on Friday for being absent from work without permission and not marking leave in the office register.
In a raid conducted by land acquisition officer S K Setia from 9 am to 11 am, social welfare advisory board secretary A K Dua was not present in his office, while A K Ranga, another official, had not marked his leave in the office register since June 11.Also, two drivers, Vijay Kumar and Mahinder, landed in trouble for not marking their leave from June 14-18. Absent for the last four days, no one knew the whereabouts of Maninder Singh, another employee of the board. Setia has mentioned in his report that Dua, who came to the office quite late, is not medically fit to discharge his duties.
A notice was also issued to Ashish Ahuja of the Red Cross for reaching office late. The raid was carried out on the directions of UT deputy commissioner Arun Kumar to tighten up on staff wanting in terms of work culture.
Among the other offices raided were Registering and Licensing Authority (RLA) and UT food and supplies department.
The functioning of RLA was found to be satisfactory. However, an assistant food and supplies officer and a food inspector were found sitting idle. They were advised to mend their ways.
Keeping in view the indiscipline among employees, the deputy commissioner has decided to introduce the system of evening attendance at all offices.
Arun Kumar had issued notices to about 20 officials from the estate office, DC office and excise and taxation department on Thursday for being absent from work.
Among the officials not present in their offices during a raid were assistant excise and taxation commissioners Shingara Singh, S S Parmar, ETOs Naresh Dubey, Rajiv Chaudhary, Magnesh Sethi and assistant director (agriculture census) R D Ag-garwal.