Though the Sindh government has installed modern Identification Biometric System to check the regularity and punctuality of government servants, it seems the mechanism is put in place only for junior staff and senior officials refuse to go through the process, it has been learnt.
Interestingly, senior officials at the Sindh Chief Minister’s House and Governor’s House are habitual latecomers, however, no system is in place to check late comers or those leaving office early, sources said.
Initially, the bureaucracy was against the installation of biometric system with an opinion that they would not go through the process like their juniors. The new system aimed at ensuring the punctuality of bureaucrats and ensuring their presence in offices, seems to have failed as officials keep coming to and leaving offices at their own. The biometric system is a computerized system of attendance that notes entry and exit of staff and was put in place under the e-policing project of the Sindh’s Information Technology Department. The main server of the biometric system was recently monitored by the Sindh chief secretary, however, not a single official was issued notice for coming to office late.
Science and industrial exhibitions: The Ministry of Science and Technology has organized a one-day National Scientific and Industrial Exhibitions at Dera Allah Yar and Usta Muhammad, district Jafferabad on May 18 and 19 respectively. An announcement by PCSIR here on Thursday said that the purpose of such exhibitions is to make the people of inner and remote parts of the country in general and Baluchistan in particular aware of the scientific and industrial progress in the country.
All autonomous bodies of the Ministry are taking part in these exhibitions and will be displaying their products of common use.
A statement of PCSIR said that the Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Mir Changez Khan Jamali, has taken especial interest to invoke motivation amongst the stakeholders responsible for creating and strengthening scientific base in the country. During these exhibitions, the educated youths of Baluchistan will be offered scholarships on merit to pursue their technical education in the Pak Swiss Training Centre and the Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering of PCSIR at Karachi.
Besides, a number of consumer products will also be distributed among the people of district Jafferabad. The participating organizations have made concerted efforts to make these exhibitions a success. These include Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR), Pakistan Standardization and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA), Center For Applied and Molecular Biology (CAMB), COMSATS (CIIT), Council for Work and Housing Research (CWHR), National Institute of Electronics (NIE), National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan Council for Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET), Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR), Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF), STEDEC Technology Commercialization Corporation of Pakistan (Private) Limited.
