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Hence, the education department had announced in November last year that it would develop an app in which teachers could upload their selfies in classroom daily. “The app was developed in December and the proposal was sent to the education department for approval. Dehradun: Months after the state education department mooted the idea of classroom selfies in rural schools to check teacher absenteeism , the proposal is yet to take off even though the app for the purpose - Ujjwal Seva Uttarakhand – has been developed already. Though the high court had ordered that biometric attendance systems should be installed in all government schools, only a very few of them have set it up so far. However, we have not received any further communication yet,” he added.According to sources in the education department, the plan has been delayed due to stiff opposition from teachers who claimed that they do not have proper access to internet or smartphones.Monitoring attendance of teachers in the far-flung areas has been a challenge for the state government..