Jamshedpur: The government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital (MGMMCH) has served show cause notices to 116 employees, including 45 doctors, whose bio-metric attendance was less than 50% in March.The state health department found that out of 290 personnel registered with the bio-metric attendance system, 116 personnel had less than 50% attendance.Acting on instructions issued by Additional Secretary (State Health Department) Bidyanand Sharma Pankaj to the hospital management to take action against the erring officials, college principal Dr Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday asked heads of departments (HODs) to serve show cause notices to doctors and other staff.A total of 25 doctors have zero biometric attendance while 20 other doctors have less than 50% biometric attendance. Similarly, 64 other staff, including nursing, para-medical, technical and general administration departments, have less than 50% attendance. This includes 37 employees whose biometric attendance is zero and 27 employees whose biometric attendance is less than 50%.Kumar said, “Everyone will have to file their reply by Thursday. Further action will be taken based on the reply.”In January 2024, the National Medical Commission (NMC) issued a show cause to the college for less than 75% bio-metric attendance of doctors. A senior hospital official said about a dozen doctors in 2022 and four doctors in 2023 were reprimanded for abandoning the biometric devices.Biometric attendance system was implemented in the hospital in 2022.