In a move that will impact over 65,000 staff including officials and doctors, the State Health Department will now release salaries of employees based on their attendance recorded thrice on the Aadhar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS).
A circular to this effect has been issued on Thursday and all Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) have been directed to release the salaries only on the basis of the employee’s attendance recorded on AEBAS.
This follows a direction by Health and Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar, who reviewed the department’s functioning on Wednesday. “This move is to increase accountability and bring about a qualitative change in the department,” the Minister said.
