Even if the employees do not sit in the office, the fan and AC are open
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Most of the employees of Kothimai Rural Municipality in Marchwar of Rupandehi have not returned to the office after going home on Dasain. As a result, the services provided by the municipality have been affected. The employees who went home to celebrate Dasain have not duly approved their leave.
Some have informed that the head of the office and the branch are on leave over the telephone. Since the absence of employees, the municipality has been deserted since Dasain.
According to the municipality, this kind of problem is not seen only when Dasain is here. At other times too, the employees have been acting arbitrarily. When the attendance of employees who are absent without information is denied, they blame the head of the office. Due to lack of staff, one person has to do the work of office assistant, computer operator and porter. When I reached the office on Thursday, most of the staff's chairs were empty in the branches and branches. However, fans and AC were running in the office.
Accounts Head Niranjan Gyawali, Education Officer Amrita Budhathoki, Sub-Engineer Shukra Narayan Yadav, Accountant Sangeeta Bhattarai, Assistant Sub-Engineer Ravindra Kumar Yadav, Information Technology Officer Rajan Chaurasia, Resident Coordinator Ajaysingh Chhetri, Sharda Rauniar were not present in the rural municipality on Thursday. Many employees have informed that they will return after celebrating Tihar. The office was deserted by 11 am on Thursday. When the customer did not come, the staff gathered in one area and were gossiping. Some were using mobile phones. Someone was standing outside the office in the cold and gossiping. The employees who were missing in the morning came and appeared in the afternoon.
"Employees are not found as empty as the floor," said a customer from Kotimai-7. The municipality had held a meeting before the Dasain holiday and instructed all the employees to come to the office as soon as the holiday was over.
However, the instructions have not been followed. An employee can take vacation leave only for 12 days in a year. Ajay Mishra, the chief administrative officer of the village, informed that such holidays will be informed over the telephone. However, the employees here do not seem to care about the rules. Chief Administrative Officer Mishra said, "The chief district officer had instructed not to leave vacancies in the office before and after Dasain, and to make the employees attend compulsorily." He said that there are problems in the management because most of the employees in the municipality are local. "Some people come on any day they want, some call and say they are sick," he said. He said that employees who stay without approval of home leave will be punished once, if they continue to ignore it, they will be asked for an explanation and if they repeat it many times, they will be recommended for departmental action. He warned that the contract will be canceled if there are contract and salaried employees. He said that when the space is vacant, the service users will be upset and the regular work to be done for the office will be affected.
