T’GANA REIMPOSES RESTRICTIONS IN GOVT OFFICES AMID SPIKE

HYDERABAD: With the Covid-19 situation in Telangana turning from bad to worse, affecting state government employees, politicians and even bureaucrats, the state government on Saturday issued fresh guidelines, tightening restrictions in workplaces.

According to a circular issued by chief secretary Somesh Kumar, the state secretariat and all the other statelevel government offices will function with reduced manpower, comprising those who would attend to their duties on a staggered basis.

While 50% of office subordinates, data entry operators and other Class-IV employees will come to work every alternate week, only 50% of the clerical staff and their superiors, including assistant section and section officers, will come to their respective offices on alternate days.