While infantile behaviour from the nation’s keepers in Parliament is customary nowadays, it’s not every day that you see a bunch of municipal workers being given lessons in punctuality in the manner they are imparted to truant school children. Sagar Naik, the mayor of Navi Mumbai who was re-elected to his post earlier this week, took almost 50 employees to task for coming late to work yesterday, making them stand outside the headquarters for an hour. The reporting time for NMMC employees is 10 am. A tad bit late himself, Naik reached the headquarters at 10.10 am and stood sentinel at the main door.

He then started stopping latecomers from entering in the building. As the clock ticked, latecomers tried to sneak in unnoticed, only to be stopped short by their top boss, who proceeded to organise the errant workers into two queues of shame. They were only allowed to enter at 11.15 am, but there was more in store. Naik then asked the administration to take action against them.