Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Feb 3: The School Education Department (SED) today launched an online application for employee attendance that integrates geotagging in addition to facial recognition in order to deliver real-time attendance information on employees’ actual places and times.
The department announced in the notification that the “JK Attendance App” has been released to track the online, real-time attendance of teachers. The department also introduced the SAMIKSHA portal, which enables schools and teachers to give feedback to students. The applications were created by the Samagra Shiksha Directorate under the aegis of the School Education Department.
The notification reads that the JK Attendance App will be used for online attendance of employees of the School Education Department, to get real-time attendance with respect to their exact location over time, enabled by geotagging; besides face recognition. “The SAMIKSHA-Portal will be used to get feedback of students for their teachers and school,” it reads.
In this regard, the Directorate of School Education Kashmir (DSEK) has sent a letter to all Chief Education Officers (CEOs) seeking their support to start the trail of application in Zonal Offices and schools. It states that a trial run must be conducted before the official launch of this application and portal in order to address any bugs and problems so that they may be fixed well in advance.
The initiative has been taken to ensure adequate control of the educational system across Jammu and Kashmir. The notification asks for the School Heads and Zonal Education Officers’ full participation during the trial run of the app and portals, “so that the same may be copied in all the Schools of the UT, in the following days,” he said.
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