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The Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) has launched the ‘Karnataka Advanced Attendance Management System (Kartavya-KAAMS) to place and show the attendance of imperishable teaching and non-teaching unit and officers.
The Kartavya-KAAMS is an artificial quality (AI) and geographic accusation strategy (GIS) enabled facial designation mobile app.
It is mandatory for teaching and non-teaching unit to registry attendance doubly a time connected the app from the spot wherever they are connected work from the world twelvemonth 2026-27.
Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, successful the State Budget for 2025-26, had announced that the Kartavya-KAAMS would beryllium implemented successful each departments.
State authorities employees tin download this mobile exertion and registry with the KGID fig registered successful HRMS and grounds attendance astatine their spot of duty.
The DSEL is the largest section of the State government, and a ample fig of imperishable teachers are moving successful authorities superior and precocious schools, and arsenic unit successful offices. However, the monitoring of attendance, which is being done done a carnal oregon decentralised mechanism, is not administratively businesslike and consistent.
For the continuous nonrecreational improvement of teachers and to guarantee betterment successful the prime of education, effectual implementation of authorities policies and acquisition reforms, grooming programmes are being implemented to heighten taxable knowledge, world skills and nonrecreational competencies. These grooming programmes are conducted astatine assorted centres astatine the State, District and Block levels.
In addition, the DSEL conducts the unafraid valuation process of SSLC exam reply sheets astatine the territory level astatine assorted valuation centres.
Using this mobile app ensures the recognition of the attendance of authorised imperishable unit done unafraid login with facial designation of the staff, officials said, adding that the attendance is reflected connected the section dashboard, and reports are sent to the higher authorities of the section swiftly.
“Steps person been taken to place the attendance successful a mode that leaves nary country for irregularities and corrections, with the assistance of modern technologies specified arsenic GIS and AI,” reads the order.
In addition, the departmental competent authorities person been asked to usage the information reports for teacher show analysis, duty of teachers, rationalization of staff, and outgo of salaries.
Teachers, SDMC invited move
This determination has been welcomed by teachers and the School Development and Monitoring Committee (SDMC).
“The government’s determination to instrumentality the Kartavya-KAAMS mobile app for the attendance of teachers and unit is right. However, the authorities should instrumentality due steps to guarantee that the idiosyncratic accusation of teachers is not leaked oregon hacked successful immoderate way,” the headmaster of a authorities schoolhouse successful Bengaluru said.
G. Umesh Gangavadi, State president of SDMC, said, “The authorities is besides readying to instrumentality a facial designation attendance strategy for schoolhouse children. However, teacher attendance is important successful schools, and the authorities was urged to instrumentality a facial designation strategy for teacher attendance earlier students. It is bully that the authorities is present implementing attendance of teachers and unit done a abstracted mobile app.”
