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Now, ZP employees have no excuse for being late to work

Staff Correspondent

Computerised attendance system to come into force

BIJAPUR: Employees of the zilla panchayat will have no excuse for arriving late to work. The computerised system of attendance is being installed in the office and will start functioning on Tuesday.

All employees, apart from Class I officers, are being given identity cards with different code numbers.

Finger impressions of the employees have been taken and stored in the machine.

Employees will have to place their finger on the scanning button for verification, while holding their identity card in front of machine's camera. If the finger impression and identity card tally, then the machine records the attendance.

A grace period of 15 minutes is given. For instance, if the office starts at 8 a.m. the machine will take the attendance till 8.15 a.m. For the next two months, government offices in the district will function between 8 a.m. and 1.30 p.m.

A Sholapur-based company has installed the machine at the cost of nearly Rs. 3 lakh. The zilla panchayat administration claims it is first of its kind in government offices in the State. Zilla Panchayat

Chief Executive Officer Rajiv Ranjan told The Hindu that in the first phase around 100 employees, including staff from the Women and Child Welfare Department would come under the "scanner".

In the next phase, it would be installed at Government-run Backward Class hostels to check the attendance of residents.

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