Inspection on biometric attendance to begin on Sat

  • | Wednesday | 22nd August, 2018

The state government has instructed education officials to de-recognize colleges that do not have biometric attendance system installed.There are just over 200 junior colleges within city limits that offer the science stream and all of them will now be visited by the inspection teams. “We were having a meeting last week with some of the principals and accidentally the date got mentioned. “We will be going through their attendance logs as well and scrutinizing every record in detail,” he added.While the education department’s ‘blitzkrieg’ start date is now out in the open, it was originally supposed to be a surprise inspection campaign. There are reports of some coaching classes installing machines in their premises so that students don’t need to visit college for that. But it won’t hamper anything because this will ensure that those who have not complied with the government’s order will do so,” the official said.

Nagpur: Starting August 25, the local education department will crack down on city junior colleges that have not yet installed biometric attendance systems.A high-ranking official in the department confirmed to TOI that over 10 inspection teams have been formed to follow up on the state government’s policy of having mandatory biometric attendance system for at least science stream students.“Lists of colleges have already been made up and we will fan out to different parts of the city and check the status in colleges,” said a senior official while talking about their strategy. “We will be going through their attendance logs as well and scrutinizing every record in detail,” he added.While the education department’s ‘blitzkrieg’ start date is now out in the open, it was originally supposed to be a surprise inspection campaign. “We were having a meeting last week with some of the principals and accidentally the date got mentioned. It was a genuine mistake as in due course of conversation the date got mentioned. But it won’t hamper anything because this will ensure that those who have not complied with the government’s order will do so,” the official said. The state government has instructed education officials to de-recognize colleges that do not have biometric attendance system installed.There are just over 200 junior colleges within city limits that offer the science stream and all of them will now be visited by the inspection teams. There are reports of some coaching classes installing machines in their premises so that students don’t need to visit college for that. This would mean that the machine installed at the college will be a dummy and the education department so far has neither the mandate nor the technical capability to verify the same.With no mention of GPS tracking in the government’s order, there is no compulsion on colleges to prove whether or not their biometric machine is a dummy.

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