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But officials didn’t not disclose about any case where action in this direction against the responsible person has been taken.In 2017, department of higher education had purchased around 3000 bio metric machines from Himachal Pradesh Electronic Corporation for about 2600 schools and 120 colleges. DHARAMSALA: The bio-metric attendance machines to discipline government teachers by tracking their entry and exits placed in government schools and colleges have failed to fulfill the desired purpose.In last two years these machines placed in about 100 institutions of this region have given up for at least four times.Education department is struggling to find a solution to put the mechanism in place as deliberate acts are also been blamed for the failure of machines.Kangra is one of the largest districts of Himachal Pradesh . It is one of the hectic tasks for the staff to enter it and mark the presence in time.Reacting to the deliberate acts, Ranaut said that there might be some of them who try to mar attendance machines.“But there are also cases when the fourth class employees who don’t know to operate these attendance machines are also responsible for the same” he added.Education department has fixed the responsibilities of the Principals and other senior staff of the schools for the security of the attendance of machines. There are about 184 high schools and 347 senior secondary schools in this district, said an official.In first phase, government has placed about 80 machines in the region but these have failed to track teacher’s attendance as of now.When contacted, Subhash Ranaunt, the official at department of higher education monitoring the devices told TOI that attendance machines are giving up again and again for which concerned people have been called to put the system in place.“The work is underway” he added.Inquires revealed that few machines also asks for Adhaar Card number of every teacher at time of marking the attendance..