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Government mulling five-day week for its employees

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DPAR studying proposal for 9.30 to 6.30 shift
It will compensate the holiday on Saturday

BANGALORE: The Government is examining a proposal on introducing five-day week for its employees.

Speaking to presspersons after the inaugural programme of the Karnataka State Archives exhibition at the Banquet Hall of the Vidhana Soudha here on Wednesday, outgoing Chief Secretary P.B. Mahishi said the Government was seriously considering the proposal.

Talks were yet to be held with government employees’ unions.

The Delhi Government had introduced five-day week for its employees and it had been working well, he said.

The Department of Personnel Administration and Reforms (DPAR) had been asked to study the proposal. If the proposal was cleared, all government employees would have to work from 9.30 a.m. to 6.30 a.m. on all five days of a week to compensate the holiday on Saturday, he said.

Exhibition

Earlier, S. Krishna Kumar, adviser to the Governor, inaugurated a three-day archives exhibition. Rare photos and records of various institutions set up during the British rule are on display.

The exhibition has been organised to create awareness among people about the relevance of archival documentation.

Records

Records on establishment of Victoria Hospital, Baldwin School, Bangalore Race (Turf) Club, development of residential layouts in Malleswaram and Basavanagudi and a few public sector enterprises are on display.

Karnataka State Archives Director Usha Suresh was present. The exhibition will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. till Friday.

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