Venkaiah Naidu undertakes surprise check, coordinates presentation of bio-metric participation

New Delhi, Apr 24 Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday attempted an unexpected check of workplaces and coordinated presentation of bio-metric participation stamping framework for the officers and staff of Rajya Sabha secretariat in Delhi.

This surprise check was first of its kind in the Parliament House Annexe and its new extension.

Senior officials of the secretariat said this was the first time that Chairman undertook such an investigation.

In a meeting with senior officials of the secretariat after his visit, Naidu noticed that he knew about the work requests on the staff of Rajya Sabha even on vacations and past available time, especially, amid the Sessions and bio-metric participation advances a feeling of responsibility and duty.

"An enabling work environment is a great help upgrading the profitability. All possible efforts need to be made to pass on organization's affectability and worry to the felt needs of the representatives in order to advance a participatory work culture," Naidu said in the meeting.

During his forty-minute long visit to different workplaces, regular territories and rooms of Chairmen of Committees, Naidu saw some staff not being in office, electric wires and links dangling in the open, heaps of documents, a latrine piece emanating foul smell toward the beginning of working day, some confined office rooms and so forth.

Rajya Sabha Chairman also directed the senior authorities to ensure sanitation by attempted uncommon tidiness drive, effective coordination among concerned offices to guarantee better support, more workspace, digitisation of documents and records and improved inward introduction of workspaces.

He directed Joint Secretary level officers to embrace standard checks to guarantee change in the workplace