RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) will introduce biometric attendance system in its offices and has started computerising the data of its employees.

The RCB spokesman, Qaisar Mehmood, confirmed to Dawn that the civic body had started computerising the data of as many as 3,013 employees of the RCB.

So far, it has computerised data of 2,975 employees, he said.

He said that the process would be completed by the end of this month and the biometric attendance system would be introduced in a month or two.

He said all contract and permanent employees would use new attendance system.

He said that after completing the process, the employees will be given cards carrying their names, designation, department, basic pay scale and employees number.

He said it would help in maintaining record of absent employees.

Published in Dawn, September 23rd, 2018

Opinion

Editorial

Digital growth
Updated 25 Apr, 2024

Digital growth

Democratising digital development will catalyse a rapid, if not immediate, improvement in human development indicators for the underserved segments of the Pakistani citizenry.
Nikah rights
25 Apr, 2024

Nikah rights

THE Supreme Court recently delivered a judgement championing the rights of women within a marriage. The ruling...
Campus crackdowns
25 Apr, 2024

Campus crackdowns

WHILE most Western governments have either been gladly facilitating Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, or meekly...
Ties with Tehran
Updated 24 Apr, 2024

Ties with Tehran

Tomorrow, if ties between Washington and Beijing nosedive, and the US asks Pakistan to reconsider CPEC, will we comply?
Working together
24 Apr, 2024

Working together

PAKISTAN’S democracy seems adrift, and no one understands this better than our politicians. The system has gone...
Farmers’ anxiety
24 Apr, 2024

Farmers’ anxiety

WHEAT prices in Punjab have plummeted far below the minimum support price owing to a bumper harvest, reckless...