Though the website, attendance.gov.in,
is still in the process of being developed, officials said it is expected to be
modelled on the lines of similar websites of the Jharkhand government and the
Department of Electronics and Information Technology.
To illustrate, the home page of the
Jharkhand government’s attendance website gives the total number of employees
present on the given day, along with graphical representations of “real-time
attendance” and statistics on the percentage of people logging into office
during different time slots, giving an idea of how many officials come to
office during the designated timings. Further, a search for any registered
employee yields complete details, along with the employee’s attendance/leave
status.
Officials said the Centre’s website is
likely to emulate most of these features and is expected to be as open to the
public. “This level of open tracking takes transparency to another level, a key
focus of this government,” said an official.
The Narendra Modi government had
recently directed all central government offices to introduce Aadhaar-based
biometric attendance systems. Officials said this website is the next step in
that direction. The attendance record entered on the biometric devices in
government offices will feed the data to this website, which will act as a
centralised management information system (MIS) for attendance.
The database for all central government
staff will be maintained centrally with a unique six digit ID provided for each
employee, based on either the last six or first six digits of the Aadhaar
number. Currently, the website has over 16,000 registered users, spread across
113 organisations. The maximum number of officials registered currently are
from the Planning Commission. There are no active users or active devices yet.
For an organisation/ department to be
registered, the nodal officers of that department will have to login to the
website and create a master list of locations of their offices, designation of
their offices and divisions/ units/ groups within their organisation. Following
this, each employee can start registering online by submitting the relevant
details along with Aadhaar numbers.
Source: http://indianexpress.com
