“We want a fool-proof attendance system in place to ensure transparency and accountability,” said S. Suresh Kumar, Commissioner, School Education, responding to the controversy surrounding the face recognition app introduced by the department to register the attendance of teachers.
The department’s move, apparently to track absenteeism among teachers besides facilitating a digital mode that leaves no scope for mistakes and save time and efforts, has not gone down well with teachers who are opposed to the use of their personal mobile phones to register their attendance.
