— By FPJ Bureau, August 22, 2014 12:13 am
New Delhi : The Central Government employees not having the Aadhaar card may soon find themselves locked out and not allowed to attend office. Orders have been issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to make all central government offices Aadhaar enabled.
Aadhaar-enabled Biometric Attendance Systems (AEBAS) are to be installed at the entrances of all government offices, first in Delhi and then in all central government offices outside. The order is binding on all employees of all ranks, including those in the Armed Forces.
The circular does not specify a date from which the new attendance system will come in force, but it stresses that “Aadhaar number is mandatory to register attendance.”
Offices have to install fingerprint scanners with Wi-Fi Internet to record attendance of the employees at a central server, where a software will be installed to automatically email to the concerned bosses of the offices about the irregular employees for taking disciplinary action, a DoPT official said.
He said the exercise is to check absenteeism and measure the time an employee spends in office and the time he or she checks in and checks out. Instead of installing the localised attendance machines, the PMO wanted them based on Aadhaar to ensure no scope for fiddling with them.