Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known for being a stickler for worth ethics. With reports of him clocking more than 12 hours per day, even his colleagues in the cabinet have apparently been forced to spend long hours at work. On the other hand, sarkaari offices are infamous for people not coming to work on time. All this may change now, thanks to a new initiative by the government. The slick new portal - Attendance.gov.in - will keep a realtime tab on all the attendance records of government officials.
As part of the 'Digital India' program, the government has decided to implement a common Biometric Attendance System (BAS) in the Central Government Offices (Agencies) located in Delhi to begin with. Under the new attendance system, the employees would be able to mark their attendance using biometric cards in their offices. According to information available on the attendance web portal, as many as 148 central government organisations have registered themselves for the same. The following agencies are being targeted initially: Ministry departments of the central agencies, Autonomous Central Government bodies, institutions and offices and Central Public Sector Units.
The entire system is based on using Aadhaar cards for registering an employee and the 6-digit attendance ID is generated based on the person's Aadhaar number. The attendance ID gets active after it gets a clearance from the UIDAI and then activated by the concerned nodal officer. The Aadhar card is compulsory for enrolling and special camps will be run to ensure all officials have a card, which incidently was a brainchild of the last government.
There are around 50,000 employees registered in the system of which around 32,000 have got verified so far. Of these people, 25,000 were present on October 7. So around 25% of the registered officers didn't make it to the office on Tuesday, something which is unlikely to go down well with the workaholic Prime Minister.
The website has a clean look with easy navigation facility. There is a feature that allows looking up a particular employee by name, provided one knows his ID and organisation he/ she works for.
The only possible pitfall would be the seamless internet connection required for realtime updates. The government is looking to counter the problem with wi-fi on NICNET/broadband and SIM based GSM connectivity on tablets.
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