Aadhar enabled
bio-metric attendance system –
Early leaving is also to be treated as late coming…
Early leaving is also to be treated as late coming…
Govt introduces Aadhar
enabled bio-metric attendance system
The Centre on Friday
decided to phase-out manual attendance system and use an Aadhar enabled
bio-metric attendance system (AEBAS) in all its offices.
“It has been decided
to use an Aadhar enabled bio-metric attendance system in all offices of the
central government, including attached and sub-ordinate offices, in India,”
said an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT).
Aadhar is a 12 digit
individual identification number issued by the Unique Identification Authority
of India on behalf of the central government.
The system will be
installed in the offices located in New Delhi by this year end.
In other places this
may be installed by January 26, 2015, it said.
The Department of
Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) will provide technical guidance
for installing the system, the order said.
The equipment will be
procured by the ministries or departments as per specifications of DeitY on
Directorate General of Supplies and Disposals (DGS&D) rate contract from
authorised vendors.
The expenditure will
be met by the ministries or departments concerned. “The manual system of
attendance may be phased out accordingly,” it said.
The bio-metric
attendance system is only an enabling platform. There is no change in the
instructions relating to office hours, late attendance etc. which will continue
to apply, the order said.
As per existing
instructions, half a-day’s casual leave should be debited for each day of late
attendance, but late attendance upto an hour, on not more than two occasions in
a month, and for justifiable reasons may be condoned by the competent
authority.
“Disciplinary action
may also be taken against government servants who are habitually late. Early
leaving is also to be treated in the same manner as late coming,” the instructions
said.
All central government
ministries and departments have been asked by the DoPT to follow the orders
which comes into force “with immediate effect”.
Source: DDI News