East Jaiñtia Hills district becomes the first in the State to introduce a system to monitor attendance of government teachers with the launch of the “Teacher Attendance Monitoring System” app today.
Developed by UBI tech solution, the app works around Geo-fencing.
Sub-Divisional Officer (Sadar) Abhinav Kumar Singh during a presentation at the function informed that 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 said the app uses a facial recognition system that reads the unique features of a face with an accuracy of about 70 per cent to identify the person and registering his or her attendance even in absence of internet connection. It also allows mark attendance from anywhere for a field worker after geo-fencing is enabled in the nearby locations where the fieldworker is located, he added.
“Through this app we will get the report of the individual teachers at the school, cluster and village levels and the entire district, if the performance of the school is going down, we can directly correlated with the teacher’s attendance,” Singh said.
A 15-day period will be given for all teachers in the district to register in the app and the administration expects that by July 1, 2023 all teachers of the district will be on board.
Minister of Excise Kyrmen Shylla, Deputy Commissioner Abhilash Baranwal, officials and stakeholders attended the launch function.
Addressing the gathering, Shylla urged teachers to work along with the district administration through the 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 said.
