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Biometric attendance is now mandatory for teachers and employees in UP Govt. Colleges

UP News: Big change in government inter colleges, biometric attendance is now mandatory for teachers and employees

 

Lucknow: Now there will be no attendance game in government inter colleges of Uttar Pradesh. Teachers and employees will not be able to show attendance on the register without visiting the school. Teachers and non-teaching staff will have to register their attendance throughbiometric medium.

Uttar Pradesh state government has announced that salary of government school teachers will be linked to biometric attendance. In an order issued in this regard, the Department of Secondary Education said that the attendance recorded through biometric scanners will be linked with the salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff to ensure the presence of teachers in government schools.

This biometric system helps to identify fingerprints, iris patterns, hand geometry and others. According to the order issued by the head of the department, Aradhana Shukla, the information such as the time of entry and exit of the teachers and staff of the school will be digitized.

Earlier, the state chief minister has announced that biometric scanners will be installed in all 2,675 government schools under Yogi 2.0. Officials said that this action of the state government has been taken in view of the non-attendance of government school teachers in rural areas. Now District Inspectors and Joint Directors have been directed to monitor all districts, whether Biometric Attendance Registration is strictly implemented.

Principals of schools have also been instructed to submit biometric attendance every month along with salary bills of teachers and non-teaching staff. On the basis of that, action will be taken to pass the wage bill. If the attendance on biometric is not being registered in any school due to technical reasons, then the principal should immediately inform the DIOS. DIOS will verify the attendance of school personnel through online means like video call, WhatsApp call etc. In addition, technical issues will be resolved.

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