The State Government’s initiative to install biometric attendance system in all Government schools to ensure the regularity of both students and teachers has been getting delayed since long and the deadline has been extended to August 15 again.
“The deadline to complete the installation process is extended to August 15. As per their convenience DEOs and DSEs have fixed the deadline for their respective districts accordingly. Few districts like Bokaro and Hazaribagh have achieved the target and have completed the installation process. In the first phase, the department is targeting all high schools and Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV),” said, School Education and literacy Department, Secretary, Aradhana Patnaik.
“The primary and middle schools will be covered in the next phase. All the technical glitches are being addressed. Moreover, one of the major hurdles like electricity too is being sorted out,” added Patnaik.
Earlier also, the deadline has been given to all the school administration staffs to ensure that all Government schools in the State capital must have biometric attendance device. “The instructions have already been issued. So far, we have stopped the establishment salary of school management personnel and will be only initiated after the fulfillment of the process. After receiving complete report on the biometric attendance status from school authority, the salary will be initiated accordingly,” said then Ranchi, District Education Officer (DEO), Rajkumar Prasad Singh.
“As per the list available with us, we have to install Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) at 91 schools. So far, 50 schools have already installed the system in the state capital. All the School Management Committees (SMC) have been instructed to purchase the mobile box including the kit that can be installed easily at a nominal price of `12,000 and through mobile application of Jhar Net,” Singh said.
Notably, State Government schools have been instructed to equip the biometric system device in April 2014. The system comprises special fingerprint recording devices. All students and teachers have been provided with Aadhaar registration numbers.In the process, students and teachers have to put last six digits into a device and then give their thumb impression.
