Bhubaneswar: All the Departments of the State Government and Subordinate Offices in Odisha shall function with 50% strength of employees, officers of the rank of Under Secretary and above who shall attend Office daily, during 7th to 31st January 2022.
As per an order issued by the General Administration & Public Grievance Department on Thursday, the Departments/ Head of offices may decide the manner of selection of employees who will attend Office.
However, the essential offices/services such as Special Relief Commissioner (SRC) and Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) offices, Police, Fire Services, Health Services, Municipal services, etc. Office of the State Election Commissioner and all offices connected with the conduct of elections to the Three Tier Panchayat bodies shall be exempted from this order and shall function in full strength.
Besides, offices of all recruiting institutions like Odisha Public Service Commission, Odisha Staff Selection Commission, Odisha Subordinate Staff Selection Commission shall function at 75% of their strength of employees. The Departments/ Head of offices may decide the manner of selection of employees who will attend Office.
All precautionary measures issued by the Department on 08.06.2020 to prevent the spread of COVID infection shall be strictly followed. In case of detection of any COVID case among the office employees, the concerned office will follow the protocol issued by the Government on 23.07.2020.
The order further stated to ensure that the Officers/staff, who are not assigned duty on roster, should work from home with VPN provided to them for attending the regular and pending works. They must be available on telephone at all times to attend to any office work of urgent nature, at short notice.
The employees with disability and pregnant women employees may be exempted from attending office and work from home. During this period no employees are allowed to leave headquarter without the prior permission of the authority.
