Soon, biometric attendance system for govt and aided school teachers

Coimbatore: The school education department is all set to implement the biometric attendance system for government and government-aided school teachers in the district soon.
In the first phase, the department would select a few schools from more than 1,100 government and government-aided schools across the district to install the devices.

A meeting with chief education officer, four district education officers and directorate of school education officials in Chennai would be held on Thursday through videoconferencing to discuss matters related to installing the biometric attendance system in schools.

“After the meeting we will get to know the schools selected in the first phase to implement the system,” a school education department official said. On Monday, the office of Coimbatore chief education had sought details regarding changes and upgradations of government and government-aided schools in the respective education districts. “We expect the biometric attendance system to be installed in select schools within the end of this year,” the official said.

The school education department had in last May announced the plans to introduce biometric attendance system in government and government-aided schools. However, a government order in this regard was released only recently. Under the scheme, a total of 7,728 government and government-aided schools across the state would get the biometric attendance system for teachers. Of these, 3,688 are high schools and 4,040 are higher secondary schools.

The biometric attendance system is being implemented to centralise the attendance of school teachers and ensure that they maintain a regular clock-in time. School education minister K A Sengottaiyan had earlier said the biometric attendance system for teachers would be implemented across the state at a cost of Rs 9 crore.