Karnataka Attendance Management System implemented for Education Department staff; demand rises to include teachers too

To efficaciously negociate and show attendance of its staff, the Department of School Education and Literacy (DSEL) has implemented the mobile-based Karnataka Attendance Management System (KAMS) for each Deputy Directors of Public Instruction (DDPIs) and Block Education Officers (BEOs), including the unit of Commissionerate of Public Instruction successful Bengaluru.

From December 1, the KAMS attendance strategy was implemented successful the Commissionerate of Department of Public Instruction (DPI) successful spot of the erstwhile biometric attendance system.

This comes amid rising request from the School Development and Monitoring Committee (SDMC) to marque KAMS attendance strategy mandatory for teachers arsenic good to guarantee prime acquisition and forestall absenteeism.

What has changed

Till now, the regular attendance and timekeeping of officers/staff successful the School Education Department was being managed done the biometric hardware system. However, galore shortcomings were found, specified arsenic attraction of the machinery successful the biometric strategy and the attraction of reports oregon data.

In addition, the State authorities has taken steps to instrumentality a azygous attendance absorption strategy successful each authorities offices. In this regard, to code the challenges posed by the accepted attendance methods specified arsenic register-based and signing attendance strategy successful the authorities offices, the State authorities has developed a mobile-based KAMS, done the Department of Personnel and Administrative Reforms (e-Governance).

This exertion is Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled and works connected Facial Recognition and Geographical Information System (GIS).

In this attendance system, employees indispensable mandatorily effect their Aadhaar details on with each their work information. Failing this, the monthly wage of specified officers/staff volition not beryllium generated.

“A nexus has already been shared successful the WhatsApp radical of the Commissioner’s bureau to marque it mandatory for each officer/staff to registry successful the KMAS. A idiosyncratic manual and nexus person besides been provided successful English and Kannada versions of KAMS. In summation to stopping the salaries of officers and unit who bash not registry for the caller attendance system, disciplinary enactment volition beryllium taken,” the Commissioner of DPI warned.

Teacher absenteeism

Meanwhile, speaking to The Hindu, Umesh G. Gangavadi, State president of SDMC, urged that teachers excessively beryllium included successful the caller system.

“Teacher absenteeism is communal successful authorities schools. Even the officials are not decently managing the attendance of teachers. It is communal for galore teachers to beryllium absent from schoolhouse without immoderate crushed connected the pretext of bureau work. This is hampering prime education. The authorities has already taken steps to instrumentality AI based Facial Recognition Attendance System for schoolhouse children. Now, KAMS attendance has been implemented for the officers and unit of the department,” helium said.