Deputy secretaries and above level officers to join offices from Monday

All deputy secretary level officers and above will join office from Monday, nearly a month after working from home due to the lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus, a senior official said.

Joint secretaries, additional secretaries, special secretaries and secretaries had joined central government departments on April 13.

In its revised guidelines related to the ongoing lockdown, the Home Ministry had on Wednesday said that "all the ministries and departments and offices under their control are to function with 100 per cent attendance of deputy secretary and levels above that".

"Remaining officers and staff to attend up to 33 per cent as per requirement," according to the guidelines.

All central government departments have been working with skeletal staff after the lockdown was imposed on March 25.

"There has to be 100 per cent attendance of deputy secretaries and director level officers from Monday as per the Home Ministry guidelines," the officer said.

According to the revised