Bhubaneswar: All Departments of State Government and Sub-ordinate Offices in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack shall function with 50% staff during the month of September 2020 and ensure that the office work does not suffer, read an order released by the General Administration & Public Grievance Department on Monday.
The Departments/ Head of Offices in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack may decide the manner of selection of employees who will attend office. However, the essential offices/services such as SRC and OSDMA offices, police, fire services, health services, municipal services, etc shall function in full strength, it added.
It further mentioned that all precautionary measures issued by the Department earlier to curtail the spread of COVID 19 shall be strictly followed by the Departments as well as the employees. In case of detection of any COVID case among the office employees, the concerned office will follow the protocol issued by the Department.
The officers/staff who have been provided with VPN shall work from home, when not assigned roster duty. They must be available to attend to any office work of urgent nature, at short notice and be available on telephone at all times. Administrative Departments will decide about the scale of operations in the subordinate and field offices.