Andhra Pradesh: Power staff barred from using mobile phones

Communication gadgets have become a veritable nuisance as employees are wasting their working hours on their mobile phones, thereby hampering the day-to-day office work, CPDCL stated

|Sep 27, 2022, 11:55:37 IST

Amaravati: In order to create a distraction-free environment in offices, employees working under Andhra Pradesh Central Power Distribution Corporation Limited (CPDCL) will be barred from using their mobile phones while on duty from 1 October.

Communication gadgets have become a veritable nuisance as employees are wasting their working hours on their mobile phones, thereby hampering the day-to-day office work, CPDCL stated.

Accordingly, CPDCL chairman and managing director J Padma Reddy issued an order banning use of mobile phones by employees during office hours. Senior officers of the organisation, however, are exempted from the ban.

This is probably the first-of-its-kind order in any government organisation, official sources said.

From 1 October, computer operators, record assistants, typists, junior and senior assistants and outsourced employees working in all offices of the CPDCL will have to deposit their mobile phones while entering the workplace.

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