Punjab today made it mandatory for government staff to submit their vaccination certificates in order to receive their monthly salary. A person can be fully vaccinated or have taken at least one dose in order to get his/her salary. They will mandatorily have to upload the certificates on the Punjab government's job portal. The certificates have to be uploaded on the state's iHRMS or Integrated Human Resource Management System website.
The move is being seen as the state government's attempt to encourage more and more employees to get themselves vaccinated against Covid as concerns escalate over the new variant of coronavirus, Omicron.
In the order issued on Tuesday, the state finance department asked all senior officers, head of the departments, divisional commissioners, deputy commissioners and others to ensure compliance.
Government employees should be informed that they should register the Covid vaccination certificate number of both doses with the iHRMS, said the order, adding if any employee has got one dose administered, he/she should register the number of the provisional certificate.
It also asked to link the Covid vaccination certificate number with the salary module so that in case an employee does not furnish information regarding vaccination, his/her salary is not released.
