According to a circular issued by Chief Secretary TMVijay Bhaskar, all classes of officials/employees in thesedepartments must attend to their work. The departments are: Health and Family Welfare, MedicalEducation, Home, Revenue, Rural Development and Panchayat Raj,Urban Development, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs,Information and Public Relations, Transport, Energy, Personneland Administrative Reforms (e-Governance), Finance (includingtreasuries), Animal Husbandry and Fisheries and Forest,Ecology and Environment.
In all other departments, only Group-A officers havebeen directed to report for duty.
However, those visually-impaired or physically-handicapped are exempt from work, the circular said, addingthat this norms will be valid till April 19. KSUVS VS