Globally, sickness absenteeism has gained a lot of public health significance in the last decade and is seen as an important determinant of productivity and overall development of the nation. Sickness absenteeism is the absence of workers from the workplace due to ill-ness / incapacity / other reasons, and the consequences of which clearly exceed the individual level (viz. loss of salary, increased medical expenses, poor quality of life, etc.) or the institutional level (viz. decrease production/quality of service, excess load on other colleagues, deteriorates relationship among the employer and employees, etc.) and eventually impacts the national / global economy.