Departments classified as critical, partially
Bhubaneswar: The state general administration department on Friday issued a fresh circular on the functioning of various state government departments during the lockdown period, extended until May 3, by classifying them into two categories — critical and partially-critical.
Earlier, the departments were clarified into three categories critical, partially-critical and non-critical.
The departments categorised as critical include agriculture, co-operation, fisheries, food supplies and consumer welfare, general administration and public grievances, housing and urban development, health and family welfare, home, labour, panchayati raj and revenue and disaster management. All other departments are now classified as partially-critical according to the fresh order, which would come into effect from April 20.
In the 11 departments falling under the critical category, all the Group-A officers will attend office, while up to 50% of the Group B, C and D will attend office on roster basis.
In the partially-critical departments, all the Group-A officers will attend office, while up to 33% officers from Group B, C and D would attend on roster basis.
The administrative heads of the critical and partially-critical departments have been authorised to take a call on the scale of operations. .
“All the employees of the state government, who are not attending office because of the lockdown restrictions, will work from home according to the fresh order,” said an official.
Employees of the departments, which were identified as non-critical, have been advised not to attend office.
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