Salary of many employees stopped for not uploading details on e-HRM
CS closely examining compliance to technological interventions
Mohinder Verma
JAMMU, Dec 12: Government of Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has decided to carry out changes in the Employees Performance Monitoring format as per the requirements of the departments and keeping in view deliverables assigned to them. Moreover, salary of several employees has been stopped for not uploading details on the e-HRM (Human Resource Management) portal despite repeated instructions in this regard.
The Employees Performance Monitoring portal was launched in the month of February this year by Chief Secretary Dr Arun Kumar Mehta in order to capture the monthly work performance of the employees and officers of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and appraisal thereof by their respective Reporting/Controlling Officers.
The aim is to provide a mechanism for self-appraisal to the Government employees on one hand and on the other hand to provide a readily available means to the higher authorities for monitoring and better human resources management.
“No doubt at present almost all the employees are submitting monthly work performance on the portal but it has been brought to the notice of the Government that uniform format for all the departments is not serving the purpose”, official sources told EXCELSIOR.
They disclosed that columns mentioning physical and financial achievements, number of deputations attended and grievances resolved don’t serve any purpose for the teaching fraternity of the Higher Education and School Education Departments. Similar is the case with the employees of the Law Department and the doctors etc.
Keeping these and other practical difficulties in mind, the Government has decided to carry out changes in the Employees Performance Monitoring format as per the requirements of the departments and further the same will be linked with the deliverables already assigned to the departments, sources informed, adding the department specific format would go a long way in assessing the performance of the employees.
“An exercise in this regard will be started shortly as Chief Secretary is presently holding deliberations on this aspect of the Employees Performance Monitoring format”, they further said, adding Administrative Council headed by Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha has already approved an exhaustive list of developmental deliverables to be achieved in the financial year 2022-23 for all departments.
The decision to assign deliverables to all departments is a first-of-its-kind and innovative initiative of the Government aimed at propelling growth and development in the Union Territory by prioritizing transformative action in all areas. These deliverables broadly define the priority areas towards ensuring greater efficiency in the overall governance of Jammu and Kashmir and lay down monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly targets for all departments.
Meanwhile, the Government has stopped salary of large number of employees for their failure to ensure compliance to the repeated directives regarding uploading of all details on the e-HRM (Human Resource Management) portal, sources said, adding “the non-compliance is notwithstanding the fact that this initiative of the Government is aimed at keeping all employees data like Annual Performance Reports (APRs), leave, promotion, increment and salary records in e-form for prompt verification as and when required and this will ultimately go a long way in checking the fudging in any manner”.
“The Administrative Secretaries of the departments whose employees have not uploaded details on e-HRM have been asked by the Government to ensure that Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) upload service books without further loss of time”, sources said, adding “in case of any further delay the DDOs will also be taken to the task as Chief Secretary is personally monitoring the compliance to the technological interventions in the field of human resource management”.
They informed that in the near future the Government will carry out changes in the e-HRM portal as certain aspects are required to be linked with it and at present discussion is going on at the highest level in the administration.
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