Office timing may be rescheduled with the introduction of a provision to work from home for certain days in order to save electricity.
Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury hinted this while briefing the media on outcomes of a high level meeting of the top officials of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources and its subordinate bodies at the Prime Minister’s Office on Thursday.
“We’ll recommend to the government to reschedule the office timing from 9 am to 3 pm and also allow officials to work from home for two or three days a week”, he told reporters.
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The Cabinet Division will take the final decision, he added, saying that the Education Ministry will take decisions about educational institutions.
He also announced a series of austerity measures that the meeting would recommend to implement like limited use of air conditions in offices, markets and mosques and keep the level of coolness at 25 degree celsius and strictly follow the market closing time at 8 pm after the Eid as part of the demand management in electricity consumption.
The wedding ceremony has to be completed within an hour from 7 to 8 pm as part of the management.