The Mangaluru City Corporation on Monday started biometric recording of attendance for 294 pourakarmikas engaged in house-to-house collection of waste and cleaning of roads.
MCC Zonal Commissioner Shabarinath Rai said pourakarmikas have to report at the respective ward offices between 7 a.m. and 7.15 a.m. They have to stand in front of the biometric machine, which will read the face and scan the iris to register their attendance. The same process should be followed between 2 p.m. and 2.30 p.m., when the pourakarmikas end their duty, he said.
These 294 pourakarmikas earlier worked with Antony Waste Handling Cell Limited that had a contract with the MCC for domestic collection of waste. Following directions by the State government for direct employment of civic workers, MCC recently employed these pourakarmikas.
MCC Commissioner K. Channabasappa said biometric recording of attendance helps MCC in regulation of work of pourakarmikas. Other employees of MCC have been recording their attendance using biometric system.
The MCC, Mr. Rai said, has so far installed biometric devices in six ward offices. The remaining ward offices will get the devices shortly. In a week, there will be full fledged use of biometric devices by the pourakarmikas, he said.
