Facial Attendance: 10 Min Grace Period after 9AM - Orders

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONER OF SCHOOL EDUCATION, ANDHRA PRADESH, AMARAVATI.

Present: Sri. S.Suresh Kumar, I.A.S

Rc.No. ESE02/498/2022,  Dated 21/08/2022

Sub:School Education Capturing of teacher, student, and employee attendance through integrated attendance mobile application in all schools, offices - Certain instructions - Issued - Reg.

Ref: This office Proc. Rc.No. ESE02/498/2022 Dt:05/08/2022

ORDER:

In continuation of the orders issued in the reference cited, the following modified guidelines are issued for the effective implementation of the Mobile application in marking of the teacher attendance through School Attendance App.

a. Teachers should mark their attendance on every working day in the school before 9.00 AM positively. Grace time of 10 minutes will be considered for marking of teacher attendance as per the existing system adopted under DOM.

b. Necessary Provision is made available in the said app to mark the attendance Offline for teachers who are not able to mark their attendance due to network issues. The attendance timestamp will be captured and it will snychronize as and when network is available. 

c. Teachers not having android phone can mark their attendance through Head Master/other Teacher mobiles.

d. Proviso of marking deputation/training/On duty will be enabled in Leave Module. The said module will be released on 25.08.2022.

e. Leaves available with Teachers/Head Masters need to be updated by the concerned and the same shall be approved by the concerned DEO. User Manual along with detailed SOP will issued accordingly. 

f. Teacher registrations should be completed immediately.

g. Marking attendance will be considered on a pilot basis upto 31st August 2022 to facilitate all teachers to get familiarized with the operations of marking attendance through Integrated App. Any issues- technical or operational encountered during this period shall be brought to the notice of IT cel, CSE for taking necessary action.

Therefore, all the Regional Joint Directors of School Education and District Educational Officers in the state are hereby directed to instruct all the filed functionaries to ensure that all Headmasters, teachers, and employees of School Education department install the integrated attendance mobile application, register in the App and start marking their attendance through the App regularly. It is reiterated that the recording of teachers attendance though the Integrated mobile app will be the only record considered for leave management and other service related issues in future

S Suresh Kumar

COMMISSIONER OF SCHOOL EDUCATION

To

All the Regional Joint Directors of School Education in the State. All the District Educational Officers in the State.

All the Principals of government DIETs in the state.

Copy to all District collectors for information Copy submitted to the Special Chief Secretary to Govt., School Education, AP Secretariat, Velagapudi, Amaravati.

Copy to The State Project Director, Samagra Shiksha, AP The Secretaries of APREIS, KGBV, APMS, APSWRIES,APTWRIES

The Director, Municipal Administration, Tadepalli, Guntur. The Director, Tribal Welfare, Vijayawada.

The PS to the Hon'ble Minister for Education, AP.