The app-based selfie attendance system aims to check absenteeism among teachers by eliminating ways to mark proxy attendance and improve discipline. Officials said the ‘e-shiksha Ghaziabad’ app was developed especially for Ghaziabad schools where the problem of teacher absenteeism is rampant. Ghaziabad district has 593 government primary schools where 2,605 teachers are deputed for nearly 80,175 students. Officials said all teachers in the district’s government primary schools will be required to register with the app. This is very demeaning for the teachers,” Dr Anuj Tyagi, national media spokesperson of the Uttar Pradesh primary teachers’ union, said.

Source: Hindustan Times November 23, 2017 17:48 UTC