Bhubaneswar: The housing and urban development department will roll out a human resource management system for the civic body's employees by May 31 to improve its service delivery system.

In the new system, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation, or the government at large, will be able to keep tabs on the employees' activities and take steps if any violation is detected. The newly rolled-out system will also help the officials take steps for their own improvement.

In the system, an employee may apply for leave, loan or put forward his or her report, request or grievance online. In return, he or she can receive the sanction or reply online from authorities. Besides, an authority may issue notification or orders of transfer, promotion or deputation of the employees online. "The software automatically prepares the accounts and registers such as service book, leave account, incumbency chart and more that retrieve relevant data from transactions," said a department official.

He said it would also help the retiring employees to prepare their own pension papers and help the authorities to process those easily and quickly. "It not only facilitates the employees, but also the government in tracking the performance of the employees and take steps for its improvement," he said.

At present, the system is being used by a fewer departments of the government, including the school and mass education, home and a few others, while it is for the first time that the government is rolling out the system for any urban local bodies of the state.

Sources said the system would first be introduced for the civic body and other eight Amrut cities of the state. Later, it will be introduced in the rest 103 urban local bodies. "We had a meeting to fix the modalities to introduce the system. We have decided to deploy enough employees at the government level to handle the software," said another official of the department.

Mayor Ananta Naryan Jena welcomed the move and said the system would benefit the employees in improving the service delivery process. "The state government has already implemented the cadre system for the staff employees of urban local bodies, and this new step will add more to the benefit of the people at large," said Jena.