Meghalaya launched Teachers Attendance Monitoring App to curb unauthorized absence of teachers
In bid to put an end to unauthorized absence of school teachers who draw their salaries from the Meghalaya Govt, the Govt has come up with a “Teacher Attendance Monitoring System” app, which is the first of its kind in the State.
According to AK Singh, IAS, SDO (Sadar), East Jaintia Hills District the Teacher Attendance Monitoring app as the name suggests is a way of monitoring the attendance of teachers of various schools of the district that draw their salary from the Meghalaya Government.
“Developed by UBI tech solution, the app works around Geo-fencing which creates a virtual barrier over a certain geographical area that triggers a response every time someone enters or exit the virtual fence”, he informed.
He also highlighted the features of the app stating that the app uses a facial recognition system that reads the unique features of a face with an accuracy of about 70% to identify the person and registering his or her attendance even in absence of internet connection and it also allows mark attendance from anywhere for field workers after geo-fencing is enabled in the nearby locations where the fieldworker is located.
“Through this app we will get the report of the individual teachers level, School level, cluster level, village level, and the entire district level so if the performance of the school is going down we can directly correlated with the teachers attendance”, he added.
It may be mentioned that a 15 days period will be given for all teachers in the district to register them in the app and it is further expected that by the 1st of July, this year all teachers of the District will be on board.
Singh gave presentation, via video conferencing, on the workings of the app during the launched of the app held in the video conference room of the Deputy Commissioners Office, Khliehriat on Friday.
During the launch, Revenue Minister Kyrmen Shylla, Minister, urged the teachers to work along with the District Administration through the Teacher Attendance Monitoring app.
He stated that to be able to give justice to the children in the district, the teachers must show discipline and teach discipline to the children”. “I believe that this app will benefit the student community in terms of not losing out because of the unauthorised absence of a teacher”, the Minister also said.
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This has to be done to garo hills as literacy rate decline from that region why teachers have been much suppres besides low salary and untimely unpaid, why not be done to the govt servant who behaving like Own job and not serving the duty, but actively smart to attend their duties only before salary day, wow wow
that a great plan here also in rural areas most of the higher school teachers are from urban areas they reached school on Monday noon they enter the school just to give their attendance with out taking class their working days started on Tuesday and end on Thursday which is only 3 days a week they have taken classes on Friday at 11:00 Am it’s time for them to take a leave to their parental house. this is way that they have been practiced for years . on the last SSLC percentage this School got ony around 35 percentage. the School class are more but teachers are few. most student in the class hour they use to play outside because they have no teachers to take class for them. and why the Secondary teacher never taken class to the students of Class 7-10 when they have a free period but they just sit in the common room and relax for 2 hours .
It’s a great day achievers award for the government if this can be implemented in letter and spirit??? But the question is what about the Rural areas where there is no internet or current??? Some teachers may have phone or not???
Good job the best way to develop the educational system in the government school and every children can have the same education like the children in private school hands up to the government 👍