Hyderabad: Leave alone schools seeding Aadhaar details of students with the central database through U-DISE, the Telangana state education department has directed schools to implement online attendance monitoring systems in around 10,000 government schools in 12 districts using Aadhaar biometrics.
The attendance system would be Aadhaar-based with devices endorsed by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). Officials from the education department said about 12,500 devices were being installed in schools to get information on student attendance by capturing iris and biometrics data.
With this, private details will become accessible to the principals, while the district education officer can check the data for the district. In an official statement, the government said, “the Director of School Education can assess the attendance of all the government schools by reviewing real-time data through the online attendance system.”
A senior officer with the education department said, “The system has been tested in 10 schools. It will work 26 days a month and 12 hours a day.” He dismissed apprehensions that the security of Aadhaar data would be compromised, stating that only the biometrics were being recorded for identification.
