category Regional, chandigarh, , tags Regional, chandigarh, , DW BUREAU Chandigarh To streamline the official functioning and provide hassle free citizen centric services, Punjab Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Friday instructed to install Biometric Machines to mark the attendance of employees in all field offices of the department. Disclosing this, the Cabinet Minister informed that it has been observed that some of the employees were coming late in field offices across Punjab due to which public has to go through tough times thereby the department has started to mark the attendance on Biometric Machines to counter this problem and provide on time services to the masses. He instructed that the Biometric Machines would be installed up to February 28, 2023 at all field offices of the department so that the attendance would be marked from March 1, 2023. Speaking about the initiative, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal informed that some of the other departments have already introduced Bio-Metric Attendance System a few years back but the same was discontinued due to COVID Pandemic. Other departments will follow the footsteps to install these systems, while some of them have already resumed this system to mark the attendance, he added. The Cabinet Minister said that the Punjab Government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann firmly committed to provide citizen services to the people at their doorsteps thereby the steps have been taken to counter the practice of absenteeism among the employees. He exhorted that the government would ensure that the people will not face any hardships for public utility services. (editor dailyworld.in)