{"id":316285,"date":"2019-11-02T06:51:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T06:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316285"},"modified":"2019-11-02T06:51:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T06:51:16","slug":"delhi-arvind-kejriwal-government-changes-timings-for-government-offices-during-odd-even-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-arvind-kejriwal-government-changes-timings-for-government-offices-during-odd-even-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal government changes timings for government offices during Odd-Even scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315236 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kejriwal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/kejriwal.jpg 545w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/kejriwal-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/>To make it convenient for the office-goers during the Odd-Even scheme, the Delhi government has changed the timings of government offices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The scheme will come into effect from November 4-15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to an official order, 21 government departments will function from 9:30 am to 6 pm, while the working hours of other 21 offices have been changed from 10.30 am to 7 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The offices which will begin work from 9:30 are Administrative Reforms, Planning, Audit, Finance Department, Environment, Power, Food Supplies and Consumer Affairs (General Branch) among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Offices including Home, Services, Urban Development, Principal Accounts Office, Transport, Prosecution, Higher Education, Information and Publicity will work from 10.30 am onwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the third time Odd Even plan will be implemented. In 2016, the scheme was enforced twice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, women drivers will be exempted from the plan. The scheme will also not be implemented on weekends.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make it convenient for the office-goers during the Odd-Even scheme, the Delhi government has changed the timings of government offices. The scheme will come into effect from November 4-15. According to an official order, 21 government departments will function from 9:30 am to 6 pm, while the working hours of other 21 offices have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[304,429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316287,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316285\/revisions\/316287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}