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PANAJI
Goa Government’s General Administration Department (GAD) on Wednesday issued an office memorandum to all departments, corporations, autonomous bodies and statutory bodies undertaken by the government asking them to temporarily exempt all their employees from marking biometric attendance in Aadhar Based Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) till March 31 in view of the mounting worry over the transmission of the Novel Coronavirus disease.
In its memorandum, the GAD has forwarded the memo issued by the Union Ministry of Personnel on March 6 which states that “it is a must to take all possible preventive measures to stop spread of virus (sic)”.
It has stressed on the need to avoid touching surfaces, which might be infected due to human touch. The AEBAS was put in place in Goa earlier this year in a bid to enforce punctuality among government employees.
Sawant shoots down rumours
PANAJI: The Chief Minister on Wednesday took to Twitter to shoot down rumours that were being circulated using a fake image of his Twitter handle to declare shut down of educational institutions to prevent the outbreak of COVID-19.
“A fake screenshot of Hon’ble CM’s tweet is circulating on social media. No such tweet has been made by the CM. Screenshots may be cross-checked with official Twitter & Facebook profiles of the CM and CMO for their authenticity before being forwarded,” reads the tweet sent out by CMO.
