Biometric attendance for MC staff from December

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, November 17

The 1,200 employees, including 820 sanitation workers, of the Municipal Corporation, Bathinda, will mark their attendance through the biometric system from December onwards.

The decision in this regard was taken at a Finance and Contract Committee (F&CC) meeting held here today. The committee gave its nod to purchase 30 biometric machines. A tender in this regard will be floated in the coming days. The scanning of employees’ fingerprints will start soon.

Thereafter, the employee will not be able to take leave without informing the authorities concerned.

The proposal for installing green garbage plants at a cost of Rs 27 lakh was also approved on the occasion. The committee rejected the proposal for installing an open gym at Jogger Park as the civic body had received only one bid. It has decided to float fresh tenders for the project.

In view of the Union government’s new guidelines on the cleanliness survey 2018, the MC had planned to implement the biometric attendance system.

The proposal for purchasing 30 biometric machines was passed at a General House meeting held in September.

Later, the civic body floated tenders in this regard. Sofel Solutions gave an estimate of Rs 9.25 lakh for 30 machines, Rs 30,850 per machine, while Tentronics Pvt Ltd Company gave an estimate of Rs 10.05 lakh, Rs 35,000 per machine, besides the maintenance cost.

The committee has assigned the task to install the machines to Softel Solutions. The MC will also give Rs 27,000 per year as the maintenance fee separately. The tender for setting  up an open air gym at Jogger Park in the city was floated by the MC on October 27. VR Enterprises presented an estimate of Rs 7.71 lakh, which was 31.42 per cent less than the MC’s estimate. Due to a single bid, the MC Commissioner canceled the tender and ordered to float a fresh tender. Mayor Balwant Rai Nath, Senior Deputy Mayor Tarsem Goyal, Deputy Mayor Gurinderpal Kaur Mangat, MC Commissioner Sanyam Aggarwal, Harmander Singh, Nirmal Singh Sandhu, and XEN Sandeep Gupta were present at the meeting.