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Economic Survey recommends biometric attendance in schools

The second edition of the survey has suggested the launch of a pilot project in the next 6 months

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The government plans to track various performance parameters of 8.7 million schoolteachers and 250 million students

Karan Choudhury New Delhi
Soon saying “present” in the classroom to mark attendance in schools might be a thing of the past. If the recommendations in the Survey are enforced then students and their teachers might thumb their attendance on biometric machines. From biometric attendance for school students, direct transfer of salaries for teachers, risks involved in agriculture, to lack of transparency in governance, it is not just inflation targeting and growth prospects the second edition of the Survey covers.

Biometric attendance

In hopes of bringing down absenteeism among students and teachers, the Survey has recommended a pilot project be launched in the next six months