Government wants CISF to guard biometric machines at Secretariat

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 6

The state government has sought the intervention of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) in guarding the biometric machines installed at the Punjab Civil Secretariat building here.

After incidents of tampering with the recently installed biometric attendance machines at the Secretariat, the Department of General Administration has sought CISF’s deployment to guard the equipment. The Central Industrial Security Force is in charge of the Punjab and Haryana Civil Secretariat security.

Sources in the department said while some of the equipment had been tampered with, the locks of other machines at the ground floor of the Secretariat were broken. Sukhchain Khaira, president of the employees union, said it was a serious matter as employees were finding it difficult to mark their attendance.