GEYZING, : In order to systemize the employees’ attendance in the department and to promote punctuality amongst them, the Forest department under Geyzing territorial division has introduced Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system at its office of Geyzing district administration centre.
Launched last year as a mandatory initiative to aware the people about the way to approach the Forest department regarding numerous beneficial initiatives and the rules to be abide by and their roles as the citizen for conservation of forest and wildlife, a 'citizen charter' providing detailed information related to the department has also been installed outside the office of the territorial division.
Divisional Forest Officer Kshitij Saxena, speaking on significance of Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system, maintained that it was an initiative to systemize the attendance with assured accuracy and to promote punctuality amongst the employees. He expressed that the system helped for the registration of attendance of employees with guaranteed accuracy as the system works in Aadhaar enabled way and the system would promote punctuality amongst the employees working under the department.
On differences witnessed in the punctuality of employees before and after the installation of the biometric attendance system in the office, Saxena maintained that the difference was definitely positive. He added the establishment of the biometric attendance system has given an extra responsibility to the employees to be the first in the office to register their attendance and such competition amongst the employees came as a positive change.
“The system also helps the employees get more aware about the importance of reporting to duty on time”, Saxena said.
On ‘citizen charter’, the DFO informed that the ‘citizen charter’ has been given a place in a written form at the office premises to provide necessary information about various welfare initiatives of the Forest department, rules to be followed by the citizens while approaching for the Forest department related matter and about their responsibility in preserving forest and wildlife. He maintained that the 'citizen charter' aimed awareness amongst the people to know the different norms set under forest and wildlife.
Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) Pradeep Subba called the initiatives taken by Geyzing territorial division as commendable and constructively effective.