Still there were complaints. That they are forced to get up at inhuman hours. That they can't leave at 5 p.m. as their superiors stay on late. The Chief Minister's office was open past 6 p.m while Speaker Prem Singh's office closed at 6. Health Minister A.K. Walia, whose office was working well after 7 p.m., confirms his misgivings.
Some employees complain that the change in office hours has turned their lives upside down.
And when the day ends at 5 p.m. there is no train to return,'' says an employee at Education Secretary Narendra Prasad's office. Even the idea of leaving early is not making them happy. Debashri Mukherjee, an additional director, says that the first half of the new timings will be ignored but the second half will be obeyed to the dot.