The
move, government officials said, is essentially aimed at ensuring that
no government employee escapes marking attendance on the AEBAS just in
case some of the wall mounted bio-metric attendance terminals are unable
to read their fingerprints. Officials said there had been a some
isolated cases where a few of these machines had reported glitches in
recognising fingerprints of registered employees.
Since
the electronic attendance system has already been linked to Aadhaar,
the fingerprints of employees are authenticated online by matching them
with the biometrics stored in the UIDAI database against the employees’
Aadhaar number. “Since a scan of the iris is also a part of the
biometric data captured by UID to generate the Aadhaar number, iris
scans can also be used to mark attendance using the AEBAS,” an official
explained.
Sources
said that around 200 iris scanning devices are already under
installation in around 100 government building in the national capital.
“The installation of these scanners will further strengthen the AEBAS,”
an official said. Over 87,000 government employees, from 395
organisations, have registered for the AEBAS so far. Close to 5,000
fingerprint reading devices — including biometric terminals and desktop
devices — have been installed in central government offices.
Simultaneously,
efforts are on to synchronise all the wall mounted bio-metric
attendance terminals installed in government buildings in the capital to
enable users the flexibility to mark their “out” attendance from a
terminal that may not necessarily be installed in their own respective
office buildings.
“Often,
officers and employees are required to go to other government offices
located in buildings other than the ones where their own offices are.
This leads to a situation where many of these employees are forced to
come back late evening to their own offices just to mark their
attendance. To tackle this, the wall mounted bio-metric attendance
terminal are being synchronised so that an employee from say Shastri
Bhavan may be able to mark his “out” attendance from say Rail Bhavan,”
an official said.
Source : An article by Mr Raghabendra Rao inIndian Express
