Chandigarh, May 17 -- To enhance transparency and accountability among the workforce and identify the regular absentees or the ghost employees, the Chandigarh municipal corporation (MC) is set to link salaries with the Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) for all its employees, including regular, contractual, outsourced, and field staff from June 1, 2025.

This decision was taken in a review meeting held on Thursday, under the municipal commissioner Amit Kumar.

From April 1, biometric attendance had been made mandatory for all employees. Prior to this, only the office staff marked their attendance through a biometric system while the field staff used the old system of registering their presence on notebooks. Officials in t...