| After failure of biometric system, Edu deptt to utilise Google location to track employees | | Govt fails to keep check on truant employees | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 19: To ensure attendance of truant employees the state government had vigorously pursued for biometric system but after its unsuccessful performance the School Education department has now decided to utilize the Google location application to keep check on teaching faculty, but its possibilities are still bleak.
When the Governor administration had taken reins of the state government, it was directed to all the departments to install the Biometric attendance system and it was also proposed to link the salary of the employees with their attendance but the move turned out to be complete failure.
"Many of the government institutes across the length and breadth of the state including Health institutions, Educational institutions beside others are still without the Biometric Attendance system in place employees have returned back to their routine of coming once in a week and mark the attendance of the entire week", an official said, adding that Biometric attendance was implemented on Governor's recommendations but the gravity of the move, lost its relevance within few months and situations returned back to zero.
Taking reference of the letter issued by Director School Education Jammu (DSEJ) on 8th of July, Principal DIET Rajouri today issued an order proposing to track the movement of teachers by using Google Location application. "Telecommunication network in not available everywhere and the truant employees will evolve another strategy to dodge this move", the official said, adding that even if some teacher would be caught, the case would ultimately reached to administrative officials, who knew everything and rot in the system.
"Most of the influential teachers have been stationed in the cities and the non-influential have been thrown to far flung areas, in total violation of the transfer policy. When the administration has so far failed to honestly implement its own transfer policy, what such orders will change", another official said, adding that these orders were only for public consumption and would not change anything in the system.
If the government would neatly implement the transfer policy and shift the influential employees to rural areas, things would start changing, the official said. |
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