Since the imposition of nationwide lockdown by the Indian government, layoffs and furloughs have become a piece of common news. In an attempt to tide over the crisis erupted due to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown, businesses have been resorting to tough measures to prevent cash burn.
The Government of India had imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 24 to contain the virus and prevent its community transmission. While announcing the lockdown and several times after that, the government had requested companies and businesses to not layoff any employee or pass salary cuts to them, but the requests have been unfruitful mostly.
Since the start of the lockdown, salary and employment related issues topped the list of various public complaints received in the Centre’s public grievance cell during in just one one month of lockdown, said a media report.
According to the recently released data by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), the total number of grievances received during last month was nearly 72,000, out of which PMO received nearly 20,000 complaints. The maximum number of complaints was received by the PMO followed by external affairs and department of financial services.
According to the data present by the report, the disposal rate of complaints by the central government stood at 84.32% while disposal rate by various states stood at only 32.11%. A total of 71,774 complaints, 45,013 were received against various Central ministries and the remaining 25,504 against State governments.
Maharashtra topped the list for the most number of complaints with 4,000 grievances followed by Bihar, UP, and Haryana.
The northern state of Uttar Pradesh recorded the worst rate of disposals. Out of the total 2,616 complaints filed, only 481 were disposed by the State authorities.
According to the DARPG data, nearly 65 % of the total grievances have been disposed of by the various government departments and ministries.
The report disclosed that people from all across the country submitted their grievances to the PMO. A close look at the complaints disclosed that a large number of people preferred to address their complaints to PMO expecting quick redressal.
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