Bhubaneswar: In order to ensure that office work does not suffer, all the departments of the State government and sub-ordinate offices in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack will function with 75% strength of employees ( all staff including Group-A officers) during the month of January 2021, said the General Administration & Public Grievance Department on Wednesday.
The latest order mentions that all state government offices throughout the state will remain closed on Saturdays.
The Departments / Heads of Offices in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack will decide the manner of selection of employees who will attend the office.
However, essential offices/services such as SRC and OSDMA offices, Police, Fire Services, Health Services, Municipal services and others shall function as full strength.
All precautionary measures issued by the Department dated June 8 to curtail the spread of COVID-19 shall be strictly followed by all departments as well as the employees.
In case of detection of any COVID case among the office employees, the concerned office will follow the government protocol in place.
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 Sub-ordinate and field offices, the notice stated.