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Sikkim govt to introduce Aadhaar-based biometric attendance for employees from Oct 1
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....ikkim govt to introduce Aadhaar-based biometric attendance for employees from Oct 1<BR>Corp. Laws / SEBI / IBC<BR>Dated:- 23-9-2026<BR>PTI<BR>Gangtok, Sep 23 (PTI) The Sikkim government will introduce Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) across government departments from October 1, an official order said. The system will initially be implemented at the state headquarters and dis....
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....trict headquarters before being rolled out across the state, according to a Home Department circular issued on September 22. Failure to mark attendance will potentially lead to extraordinary leave and automatic salary deductions. The circular said AEBAS, developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and linked with employees' Aadhaar/UID, would allow government employees to mark attenda....
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....nce through smartphones from designated locations in the vicinity of their workplace. "It shall be mandatory for all government employees, whether regular or temporary, to register themselves and record their attendance in the AEBAS," the circular said. It added that attendance and leave records captured through AEBAS would be linked with the PRANALI system. "Failure to record attendance in ....
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....AEBAS shall be treated as extraordinary leave and deduction from the salary of the concerned employee will be made automatically by PRANALI from the salary accruing on the subsequent month," it said. At the end of every month, AEBAS will generate an attendance report for each employee. Departmental nodal officers will verify leave and absences and determine whether they were authorised and genu....
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....ine. After accounting for permissible leave and official duty, any remaining absence will be treated as the employee's net absence. After the cut-off date of the seventh of the following month, PRANALI will pull the net absence data through NIC's Net Absence Consolidation APIs. Drawing and Disbursing Officers will then generate and digitally sign orders for extraordinary leave or leave witho....
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....ut pay for employees with a non-zero net absence. The orders will be sent to the concerned personnel sections for updating leave accounts and service books. In the case of Group A and B officers, the orders will be forwarded to the Department of Personnel. Citing Rule 20(2) of the Sikkim Government Service (Leave) Rules, 1982, the circular said the competent authority could convert absence w....
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....ithout leave into extraordinary leave, with no additional procedure required for unauthorised absence recorded through AEBAS. For temporary employees, failure to mark attendance through AEBAS will be treated as leave without pay, and the prescribed procedure for salary or wage deduction will be followed. All Secretaries and Heads of Departments have been directed to appoint nodal officers no....
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....t below the rank of Additional Secretary or equivalent. The officers will receive hands-on training from NIC for operating the system. The government said AEBAS monitoring would commence from October 1, 2026, at the state and district headquarters and would subsequently be extended across the entire state. PTI COR RG =============<BR> News - Press release - PIB....