Biometric attendance tools are a
familiar sight amongst Indian offices, both Government and Private.
The main drawback of such localized
biometric attendance tools is the need to invest substantially to make it
beneficial. Also, the data generation was not in a standardized format.
Realizing the need for a simple,
cost effective Attendance Tool, Shri.Ram
Sevak Sharma (Popularily known as Shri RS Sharma), during his tenure as
Chief Secretary-Jharkand conceptualized an Attendance System based on Aadhaar
Numbers.
The prerequisite for the Aadhaar
Based Attendance system is that the respective employee should have an Aadhaar
number, a very basic requirement.
The Aadhaar Based Attendance system
was launched in January 14 in Jharkhand. Over the past few months, the system
has been fine tuned and the All India
launch was done in October 14.
The roll-out is being spear headed
by National Informatics Centre (NIC) under the guidance of Department of
Electronics & Information Technology.
Yes,
Shri RS Sharma is the Secretary of Department of Electronics & Information
Technology.
The
statistics as on Date are as under:-
Number
of Organizations’ – 149
Number
of Registered Employees – 58286
The initial rollout will be Central
Government Offices located in New Delhi. Gradually, the Biometric Attendance
System will be rolled out across India. The present target audience is the
Government employees only.
Employees can mark their attendance
through wall mounted bio-metric attendance terminals, finger print scanning
devices or IRIS devices.
Time taken to Record Attendance is
as low as 1-2 Seconds on Wi-Fi and 8-11
Seconds
on GPRS (SIM). Two modes are preferred as a backup.
The System has an in-built leave
management system wherein an employee can
be
marked “on leave” so that the system recognizes him/her as on leave and does
not send a late attendance SMS.
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