The government on Sunday issued fresh advisory asking all government departments to allow staff required to run essential services to a tend office between March 23-31 as part of exercise to contain the spread of Covid-19.
In a office memorandum, the Department of Personnel andTraining has said that head of departments will be required to draw a roster ofstaff including officers, consultants, outsourced employees, who would renderessential services within each department. On these will attend office duringthe period of lockdown, so that offices function with skeletal staff.
The said instructions are not applicable to people engagedin emergency services.
The Department of Financial Services and Department ofPublic Enterprises have also been asked to issue similar instructions so thatoffices of financial institutions including banks and public sector enterprisesalso function just with essential staff over the next week.
The advisory has further said that officials who are workingfrom home should be available on telephone and other electronic means ofcommunication at all times and be ready to attend office in case of exigenciesat work.The rostering planwill also be followed by autonomous bodies and statutory bodies.