Management institutes to help group of ministers handle Covid-19 crisis

Students of these 26 institutes will provide interns to help the EGoMs with data analysis and policy inputs

Crowded offices

The Centre’s revised guidelines, issued on April 15, asked all its officials at the level of deputy secretary and above to ensure 100 per cent attendance while of the remaining officials, 33 per cent were mandated to attend office. This was to reduce overcrowding in offices and maintain social distancing. “It is, however, seen that in some ministries/departments more than one third of the officials below deputy secretary level are being called to office. This might lead to undesirable crowding in the office, jeopardising the preventive measures in place for containing the spread of Covid-19,” the Department of