Biometric attendance system for schoolteachers introduced

NAWABSHAH: Secretary Education Sindh Dr Fazlullah Pechohu inaugurated the Biometric Attendance System for government schoolteachers at a local auditorium here on Saturday.
Talking to the media, Dr Fazlullah said the government had launched a campaign against the absent teachers with the help of the District Management Group, the district administration and the judiciary but all in vain as the campaign yielded no positive results.
He said show cause notices were served on hundreds of ghost teachers but it also did not pay. He said the government has now introduced the biometric attendance system at the government schools.
He said the system will include two phases. He said the data of the government schoolteachers would be collected in the first phase and the attendance process would start in the second.
He said a large number of teachers are practicing law, working as journalists and are associated with some other business but are drawing salaries from the education department.
He was optimistic that the biometric system would expose ghost teachers and those doing two jobs at the same time. He said there are scores of teachers serving in foreign countries and if they fail to come in biometric system their salaries would be stopped in the first phase and would be removed from service in the second phase.
He said another system under the title of ILLMI is being launched during the coming week through which the students would be able to inform the control room of the education department about their absent teacher. The control room would immediately collect the information about the school and its location and it would follow a strict action against the absent teacher.