Officers stop mobile with vacation, the government of Punjab has expressed resentment; This order was written by writing a letter - Punjab government upset while officers on holidays turn off the cell phones

The Punjab government is angry with the officers to close cell phones during the holiday. It is often seen that the authorities turn off their phones during Saturday or other holidays, making it difficult to contact them. The government raised strict objections to this and wrote a letter to all administrative officials and ordered to be available on the phone even during the holidays. Instrapreet Singh, Chandigarh. It is often seen that on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays or after vacation, officers, employees stop their phones or place on flight mode, making it difficult to contact them in connection with work. The government wrote a letter to all administrative officials on Saturday with this attitude of the officers. In a letter issued by the personal department, it was said to have examined that many officers were not available on their phones afterwards. Their phones are either turned off, are in flight mode, the coverage is out of the area or even asks for distraction. Some work related to administration requires immediate government participation. On the day of the holiday, the officers must be available on the phone and orders to all the outreach in question, and it has been said that the offices must be available on the cellphone on the day of the holiday to complete the administrative work so that these tasks can be completed on time. Similarly, another letter was also released two days ago. In which all the people involved were told that it was seen that the officers did not respect the MLAs they deserved. The letter states that it has previously been issued that the status of MLA is in the protocol above the general secretary, so it is necessary to honor him. Former CM Amarinder Singh also issued the order, now this is the second letter in which the government expressed dissatisfaction with the closure of the mobile pleasure of officers and employees, although this is not the first time the personal department had to issue such a letter. Earlier, a similar order was accepted by former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in 2017. He also said that mobile accounts of officers and employees are paid by the government. This is done so that it must be available for 24 hours. The telephone allowance was launched in 2011, the former SAD-BJP government filed a telephone allowance for government officials in 2011. This allowance began on the recommendations of the committee established to remove the anamline from the Payment Commission, although Captain Amarinder Singh later opposed the expenses when the expenses wanted to reduce the expenses, but the employees were strongly opposed, but the government was the decisive decision. At the time, the government had to pay Rs 101 crore as mobile expenses. The government has reduced the cellphone allowance of Group A employees from Rs 500 to Rs 250 per month. For Group B employees, this has been reduced from Rs 300 to Rs 175 per month. Similarly, for Group C and D employees are reduced from Rs 250 to Rs 150 per month. Every big news from your city, now on your phone. Download the most reliable companion of Local News Afjagran Local App.