Focusing on bringing various information and technology reforms in its functioning, Haryana Government has now planned to distribute GPS-enabled wrist watches to its employees to keep track of their real-time location during office hours.

An announcement in this regard was made by the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday during Vikas rally held at Sarmathla village of Sohna in Gurugram district.

The objective of giving GPS-enabled wrist watches to the employees include recording attendance of staff, prevention and control of misuse of manual attendance system, maintaining transparency, accountability in operations and weeding out of the fake, duplicate, and false system of marking attendance.

The is chalking out a detailed plan on how the proposed system of smartwatches will be introduced for over 2.5 lakh employees in its departments, boards and corporations.

Apart from this, many digital reforms have been brought in by the State Government since 2015 to bring transparency in its functioning. All the Services of all the departments were made online on the Saral portal. As many as 547 schemes and services of 42 departments are now given through the Saral and Antyodaya portal.