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AHMEDABAD: The state education department is set to start the online attendance system for 40 lakh students at 32,000 government schools across the state from Monday.One teacher in each school will be entrusted with putting attendance data online for perusal of the education department. We are trying to introduce a biometric attendance system in the near future.” The education department will implement the system from Monday for the primary section at its schools. It plans to introduce the system in a phased manner in the secondary and higher secondary sections.Education secretary Vinod Rao said, “We prepared the online data system with to make all information on attendance available to the department. The irregular attendance of teachers, especially in remote areas, hurts education the worse..