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No more punching cards
The Public Administration Ministry has done away with the practice of public servants having to punch cards to mark attendance from January 1 this year. This is part of an effort by the Ministry to create a friendlier environment for employees, which would in turn help to improve productivity and quality of service.

According to the Ministry the existing rules and regulations to keep public servants in their work place for a fixed period of time has adversely affected the efforts to achieve speedy economic and social development.

The Ministry says that the volume of work to be performed is more important than the time frame and because of this it has thought of providing an opportunity to public servants to attend and leave office at convenient times in order to create an environment to perform duties in a friendly manner in close contact with the head of department thus improving productivity and quality.

Depending the success of this programme, the existing institutional rules and regulations will be amended.

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