Delhi Development Authority’s muster roll has over 1,600 employees ‘unaccounted for’ after it launched a campaign to collect the biometric details of its employees.
Last month, the housing authority had reported that over 2,200 employees did not turn up for submitting their fingerprints even after an official order but the DDA later reconciled some of the missing staff, reducing the figure to a little over 1,600. According to its top officials, DDA has about 15,600 employees in its database and efforts are on to reconcile the remaining missing figures.
When asked, DDA vice-chairman Balvinder Kumar did not rule out the possibility of them being ‘ghost employees’. ‘We are looking into the matter and efforts are on to get to the bottom of this apparent inconsistency. Mystery is deepening and we are not ruling out anything. These unaccounted 1,600 could be ghost employees, we don’t know yet,’ Kumar said.
The DDA as part of streamlining its employee database had initiated a biometric registration process in May. ‘Circulars were issued out to employees, who were asked to come and submit their fingerprints for our digital employee database, which we are now centralising, as it was decentralised earlier,’ VS Tomar, director of systems at DDA said.