SDMC links teachers’ salaries to biometric attendance machine

NEW DELHI: Absence of municipal teachers has been a major issue plaguing primary schools run by civic bodies.

South Delhi Municipal Corporation

has issued a notice to directly link disbursement of teacher’s salary to the

biometric attendance

machine in all of its schools.

“From now, no excuses will be accepted. Salary will be deducted and

penalty

imposed on teachers who fail to mark their attendance on time in biometric machine,” Nandini Sharma, who heads education committee of the south corporation, said.

Delhi’s civic bodied runs over 588 primary schools, where over 2.5 lakh children

avail

education. These schools have more than 6,200 permanent teachers and over 700 contractual teachers. “All principals, teachers and non-teaching staff have been instructed to follow these orders. In case the biometric machine is not working, teaching staff can immediately report the malfunctioning to the headquarters and to the IT department,” spokesperson of the civic body said.

J L Gupta, director (education) SDMC, said the biometric system will be strictly enforced in all schools to ensure punctuality and regularity of teachers.


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