Andhra Pradesh teachers say no biometric roster

Hyderabad: Teachers of Andhra Pradesh are staunchly opposing the proposed biometric attendance system proposed by the TD government.
While the state government plans to ensure accountability through this system, the teachers suspect the real motives of the government. 

The Andhra Pradesh government had announced that it wants to modernise the government education system in the state and would introduce biometric attendance for both students as well as teachers in the schools.

Andhra Pradesh education minister Ganta Srinivasa Rao had said that the biometric system would be experimentally launched in Visakhapatnam district and be replicated in other districts as well.

However, the proposal hasn’t gone down well with government teachers. They feel that the minister intended to say that the teachers are not sincere about their duties. 

“In most districts even district education officers are not there. If government is sincere we will support any move. But we sense that the motive is something else,” said M. Srinivasa Rao, a teacher and secretary of the Sarvepalli Praja Teachers Union, AP. Some teachers also say that it is an attempt to introduce corporate style schooling in government schools which is bound to fail.