The Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) for teaching and non-teaching staff in government high and higher secondary schools is all set to come into force in the district from May 6.
Officials said the new attendance system is being introduced in 136 government high schools and higher secondary schools and 48 government aided schools in the first phase. “The biometric fingerprint machines have been distributed to all these schools in the three educational districts – Ramanathapuram, Paramakudi and Mandapam.”
Officials of the school education department launched the process of linking the Aadhaar number of teaching and non-teaching staff with the machines on Friday. In the first phase, 70 higher secondary schools and 66 high schools and 33 higher secondary and 15 high schools would be covered in the system.
As some of the teaching staff would have gone on vacation after the summer holidays began on April 13, heads of schools and non-teaching staff linked their Aadhaar numbers with the machines on Friday. The other teaching staff would link their Aadhaar numbers when the schools reopened on June 3.
AEBAS was also being introduced in 11 Block Educational Offices, 11 Block Education Research Centres, three District Educational Offices and the Chief Educational Office in the district. The system would be introduced in the Matriculation and other schools in the next phases.
After the Aadhaar numbers were linked, the last eight digits would become the ID number of teaching and non-teaching staff and they would use the number for registering attendance and while leaving the school, the officials said.
In Sivaganga district, AEBAS was being introduced in 210 government and government aided high schools and higher secondary schools in the first phase. The linking process had been launched for 34 schools in Tirupattur educational district, officials said.
