The Hindu 07.07.2017
BBMP to finally digitise employee records
How
many Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials got
promoted/transferred/suspended last year? It seems even the civic body
does not know.
While employee names and payment records were
centralised a while ago, details on employee transfers and promotions
continue to be maintained separately in each zone by the respective
drawing and disbursing officers. For citizens, this becomes evident
while trying to contact officials based on the information provided on
the BBMP website. Many officials would have been transferred or retired
but this information is rarely updated.
BBMP has finally woken up
to this lacunae and has decided to bring in computerisation of all
employee records. “Sometimes, we do not get to know if an officer has
been transferred or promoted as there was no information coming to the
head office,” said V. Manjunath, an official working for the BBMP
Establishment and Administrative Reforms Standing Committee, who is part
of the digitisation programme.
According to G.R. Harishilpa,
Assistant Commissioner (Administration), the software for centralisation
of records is ready and officials are waiting for approval from the
Finance Department to start the system in a month or so. As the records
of 9,000 employees will need to be entered, she expects that the system
will be running in another three to four months.
“Currently,
employee service registrars are being handled by the 140 drawing and
disbursing officers working under BBMP, and there is a delay in updating
records,” she said.
The database will also include permanent pourakarmikas employed directly by the civic body.
