Big Brother Modi is watching bureaucrats

[sarang]

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Delhi's bureaucrats scramble to comply as Modi's biometric attendance rules kick in

Getting to work on time is proving a rather novel task for some government employees.
Shibaji Roychoudhury
Oct 8, 2014 · 04:30 am
All central government employees, and those of the Delhi state government, will be given a six-digit attendance identification number. The employee will be required to enter the number on their terminal, following which the system will ask for fingerprint verification or an iris scan. Those travelling to other government departments or on official tours will be able to mark their attendance at the entry gate of the government office they are visiting.


For example, a bureaucrat at the Ministry of Finance who is meeting the minister for defence and finance, Arun Jaitley, at the defence ministry in North Block, can mark her attendance on the Aadhaar-linked machine installed at the entry gate.

The website also allows the Prime Minister’s Office to monitor the whereabouts of each individual official during the day. An employee who leaves before lunch for an official meeting at another department will have to enter his ID at that department’s entrance. This will show where a bureaucrat was at what time.
The site also allows anyone with internet access to use the website to track the whereabouts of the officials. It is this transparency that has most rattled government officials in the capital.
Metro rush

Since the biometric attendance system has been in place, there has reportedly been a mad scramble at the Central Secretariat metro station between 9 and 9.30 am every working morning. Thousands of employees from across the city are converging on the station to make sure that they make it to their desks on time.

 

[sarang]

For the interested:
Attendance.gov.in | Dashboard

 

[sangom]

Sangom Ji,

Operating rigid dictatorship for one or two decades that too here in India?

Have you forgotten Emergency (21 months between 1975-77). Why I.G. could not hold it for along time?

You can write in this Forum that this is a ‘show’ and that is a foolish belief,etc

But you and I are left with no other option except to comment on such schemes.

With a stable Government, nothing can prevent such schemes taking shape in Central Govt.,

It is certain that whenever such new schemes are introduced there will be some resistance from the concerned.

And Modi know how to handle them to his advantage.

I am differing from you only in regard to the last line, viz., And Modi know how to handle them to his advantage.!
I believe that India and its 125 crore popullation, is something beyond even Modi's control, unless you have already vested Modi as something of a GOD. We must remember, even then, that even after taking avatars as Krishna, even that supposed God had not been able to achieve much, except decimating the Kuru dynasty and several billions of warriors in a fight for a saamraajyam which formed a part of today's divided UP!

 

[sangom]

For the interested:
Attendance.gov.in | Dashboard

23,729 present out of a total of 36,349 employees on 10-10-2014, and that gives 65%. Why should there be such an elaborate system to watch one-third of the employees not doing their work?

 

[V.Balasubramani]

I am differing from you only in regard to the last line, viz., And Modi know how to handle them to his advantage.!
I believe that India and its 125 crore popullation, is something beyond even Modi's control, unless you have already vested Modi as something of a GOD. We must remember, even then, that even after taking avatars as Krishna, even that supposed God had not been able to achieve much, except decimating the Kuru dynasty and several billions of warriors in a fight for a saamraajyam which formed a part of today's divided UP!

Sangam Ji,

The term of every Government is just only for five years and thereafter based on merit, extension issued by the general public during next election.

And Modi’s term has just started. Wait and see.

What you are talking about avatar and puranic matters pertains several centuries back and we are in 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century now.

Absolutely there is no comparison.

 

[sangom]

Sngomji,

1. Modi will never get reelected in gujarat; it happened several times.
2. BJP is committing harakiri by announcing modi as pm candidate; bjp has got new strength.
3. Modi will never become pm; he has
4. Proposing modi is good for congress; congress is decimated
5. Secular forces will triumph if modi is made leader. Secular forces have been cowed down
6. There will be religious riots all over india; has not ahppened.
7. Foreign govts will ignore india; they are in queue to work with modi and india.
8. No non bjp govt will cooperate with modi; many cms have developed respect for modi.
9. With his poor english, modi will be an embarrassment in dealing with foreign govt heads; modi has impressed all with his passion, commitment, delivery and body language - and speaking in hindi everywhere.
10. Govt employees will revolt and will use bureaucratic tactics to delay work; Most of the govt servants and babus have fallen in line, attend office in time and clear the files within stipulated time. And many are doing work without leaks to media and enjoying largesse from the media and touts.

So your pessimism and negative mindset is misplaced; perhaps it is better to have some with that mindset and visibility (media) because the contrast between expectation (negative) and result will be strikingly high. Long live pessimists and no sayers.

Sarangji,

I don't think all the Ten Commandments were given out by me, but Commandments 7, 8, and 10 are yet to be proved beyond doubt.

7-Foreign governments to work with modi and india, is a very unclear statement; have they not got their own work to do? And what work have they agreed to do "with modi"?

8-CMs of state governments have to work with the central government, but only Shashi Tharoor has so far "developed respect for modi"! Vasundhara Raje took a potshot at modi just yesterday only!

9-I do not think the common man in any of the states - including the BJP-ruled ones - (Maharashtra included) can get anything done by the state government employees, even today, without paying bribes. So, which are the "govt. servants and babus" you are talking about?

 

[sarang]

You are again missing the point. It is only an attendance monitoring system, not performance evaluation, yet. Other categories, on tour, cl, pl, ml, permission categories are not covered. Perhaps with your banking background, you can tell what percentage of staff will be physically present and punch. Bio attendance recording is common everywhere. Even a medical shop employing ten has ARS.

23,729 present out of a total of 36,349 employees on 10-10-2014, and that gives 65%. Why should there be such an elaborate system to watch one-third of the employees not doing their work?

 

[Jaykay767]

Frankly people are getting carried away by the enormous hype & hoopla surrounding that some great magic will take place in terms of development.

First off, what development has taken place in Guajarat? Migration of people are the sure shot confirmation of development. People went/still going to the west/Aus/NZ, Singapore, Japan etc.. since these places are very well developed. People in the north are coming to south cities in hordes to Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad etc.. apart from Mumbai/Pune due to the excellent development here.

Is anyone migrating to Guajarat ? Guajaraties themselves are not migrating back to their home state ?. 50% of Mumbai are Gaujaraties..,no one is going back?

I am happy to stand corrected if anyone can point to facts otherwise?

On top of all this, there is some major hero worship going on every action being taken … LOL !!!

 

[Jaykay767]

Instead of monitoring attendance, one should monitor the results !!

 

[sangom]

Frankly people are getting carried away by the enormous hype & hoopla surrounding that some great magic will take place in terms of development.

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On top of all this, there is some major hero worship going on every action being taken … LOL !!!

I fully agree with Shri Jaykay's observation about "hero worship". There is no substance in most of the hyped items like "swatch India", etc. And, to my limited knowledge and intelligence, the only "Pallavi" of Modi seems to be asking, exhorting MNC Chiefs, PIOs and whoever else has got some dollars, to come and "invest in India", without telling them in what way it will be more profitable to those investors. (In a way, it looks as pathetic as any wayside beggar exhorting people to throw a few coins into his bowl!) If India was such a good country, would not they have come and invested of their own accord, just as they did in China? So, the writing on the wall is that Modi has to make India more profitable than what China is. And I feel this is an impossible task not only for Modi but for any PM in the near future.

This is so because, according to me, we Indians were sold with "dreams" even at the time of gaining our Independence from the British and people generally thought Nehru was a Superman who would give the whole country, a heavenly existence with milk and honey flowing freely, as the saying goes. We had socialist principles implemented by the Nehruvian regime but all those efforts ultimately collapsed and India had to pledge its gold and tide over those virtually "begging" days.

People do not have a national spirit, they utterly lack honesty, people in general are very ambitious also and so they take to corruption and crooked ways in almost all aspects of life — one has to bribe the staff of the primary health centre/hospital where a child is born, the municipality/corporation to issue a birth certificate for the child, without hassles, right up to the electric crematorium where the old person, the one the child grows as, to ensure that the ashes given are of the concerned person's and not from some swept-up heap at the end of the day ! (If it is an old type crematorium, huge bribes are to be given to see that the body is burned using fire-wood only and not used tyres with kerosene/petrol. Unless people are weaned away from these and other undesirable habits and are converted to honest and really civilized citizens, it will be very difficult for India to progress.

But the rich and the super-rich will have a smooth and comfortable life here because money can buy them anything they desire......