After installing a Biometric Attendance Control System (BACS) at North Block to ensure timely attendance, the home ministry has now put in condom vending machines as part of its safe sex awareness drive for employees.

The machines installed by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) dispenses Josh condoms. Ministry officials say each machine has 16 condoms and some employees were seen minutely studying the instructions for their use.

In fact, according to a ministry official, within two days of it being installed, one machine had to be replenished!