State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain on Wednesday said the new office timings for the government and autonomous offices are not permanent.
The state minister said this at the Secretariat in a deal signing ceremony between Sunlife Insurance Company and Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum (BSRF).
Farhad said as day time is very long now thus daylight should be used efficiently and later the schedule will be readjusted.
The new timings (8am-3pm), effective from Wednesday, meant the offices will start early by an hour.
The officers and employees have welcomed this initiative by spontaneously joining work as per the new schedule, he mentioned.
The government’s move to bring forward office timings by one hour will be effective if everyone remains frugal in using electricity, he said. “Reducing office hours by an hour will help save on electricity, which will be used for production,”.
Regarding the conflict between the timings of offices and schools, Farhad said private offices and financial institutions are operating from 9am, however, the situation is tolerable and the government’s decision is correct.
In the new timings, the workflow at the offices will be increased, and there will be no pending work and no disruption in services, hoped the state minister.
On Monday, the government rearranged the office timings from 8am to 3pm for all the government and autonomous offices and from 9am to 4pm for all banks in a bid to save electricity amid short supply.
Besides, there would be two weekly holidays in the educational institutions, Cabinet Secretariat Khandker Anwarul Islam said, after a Cabinet meeting.
In the meeting, the cabinet asked the power, energy, and mineral resources ministry to ensure the uninterrupted electricity supply in the rural areas from midnight to dawn for the next 10-15 days so that irrigation is not hampered.
BSRF General Secretary Masudul Haque presided over the event along with the organization’s President Tapan Biswas
