Tripura government schools to get e-attendance system for teachers

NEW DELHI: Tripura is set to implement an e-attendance system for teachers in all government schools, a senior official said on Thursday. The move is aimed at bringing transparency in the attendance record of teachers, he said. “The state government has already introduced e-attendance system in some offices, including the civil secretariat. Now, it will be implemented in schools,” said Officer on Special Duty (OSD), School Education, Abhijit Samajpati.

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Samajpati said the mechanism will also be introduced for students in government schools, six months after its implementation for teachers. Necessary training exercises on operating the e-attendance system have already started, he said. “Once it is successfully implemented for teachers and students, we will add the provision for geo-tagging, too. The entire system will be digitised,” Samajpati said. Altogether, 25,064 teachers are engaged in 2,640 government schools in Tripura where 4,76,609 students are enrolled, according to official data.