Government Initiates Digital Monitoring to Improve Employee Discipline

Kathmandu. The government has started 'digital' monitoring to improve the discipline and conduct of employees. The National Archives (Civil) has stated that following the directive of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers' Office, the archival of the status of behavioral discipline of employees in the employee's personal details has been made mandatory.

The National Vigilance Center and the National Archives have jointly started work to track the behavioral aspects of employees, informed Shrawankumar Pokharel, Director General of the Archives.

Director General Pokharel informed that the National Archives has provided access to the Vigilance Center to enter the details of actions taken against the concerned employee within the employee's PIS system to track their behavioral aspects.

According to Director General Pokharel, customization of the PIS system has also been initiated to further clarify the details of the actions. This will now ensure that any mistake made by an employee or any warning they receive will remain permanently in their permanent record.

Until now, employees who did not adhere to punctuality, disobeyed orders from higher authorities, or were slow in their work were given warnings by supervisors, but there was no formal record of it. As a result, employees with bad conduct were receiving benefits similar to employees with clean records in terms of transfers, promotions, and rewards.

'The situation where employees with bad conduct are rewarded raises questions about the justification of the government's decision,' said Director General Pokharel. 'Now, following the directive of the Prime Minister's Office, we are diligently working to make the archival of details of bad conduct in personal details a primary basis for deployment and management.'

According to Section 55 (A) of the Civil Service Act 2049, supervisors have the provision to issue warnings to employees for three reasons, stating the cause. The Act provides for issuing warnings if an employee does not adhere to punctuality, does not obey orders from higher officials in government work, or is negligent or slow in office work.