EDU, COLLEGE STAFFERS TO WORK FROM HOME
CHANDIGARH: After nine employees of the education department working on the first floor of the additional deluxe building of the UT secretariat in Sector 9 tested positive for Covid-19 in the past three days, the administration on Monday directed teaching and non-teaching staff will not be asked to come to offices and government and aided colleges, unless there is emergent work. They have been allowed to work from home till July 31.
The administration also directed its employees not to have lunch together in groups in canteen or rooms in the UT Secretariat.
While the education department had sealed offices of director, higher education and school education, and other rooms on the first floor on Sunday, Chandigarh Police headquarters, which too are located in the same building, were closed for sanitisation for two days on Monday. All the wings and office staff have been asked to work from home, in the orders issued by Manoj Kumar Meena, superintendent of police (SP, headquarters).
Several offices of the UT engineering department also operate from the additional deluxe building.
Mukesh Anand, UT chief engineer, said: “We have asked office-in-charges to call minimal personnel. They have been asked to sit in the deluxe building till sanitisation is over.”
Meanwhile, concerned over spike in cases, UT administrator VPS Badnore on Monday shared on Twitter: “The increase in Covid positive cases in Chandigarh is worrying; stringent steps are being taken to combat the situation. Inflow of patients without formal reference to PGIMER needs to be monitored.”
Even in his interaction with deputy commissioners of Panchkula and Mohali in the Monday’s war room meeting, Badnore urged the neighbouring states to treat non-critical patients on their own.