The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's human resources (HR) department seems to be facing a tough time going digital with its department heads, mid-level managers and supervisory officials refusing to follow the new online attendance system. Officials in the three levels have been held responsible for not adjusting the leave of their subordinates on the BMC's online portal. This has led to a 10 per cent deduction from their salaries for the month of July.

Around 2,000 employees across the three levels lost 10 per cent of their gross monthly salary for not updating their team members' records up to June 30. FROM Class 4 employees to the deputy civic commissioner, as many as 1.05 lakh employees work at the BMC. The civic body decided to go paperless in February 2018 with an online biometric attendance registering system. Supervisory personnel, mid-level managers and HODs are responsible for ensuring that the online attendance of their staff is recorded correctly. However, they have failed to do so for months.