Break to fake attendance in degree colleges!
Bio-metric system to replace manual attendance
Bengaluru, November 23: The Higher Education department has decided to make bio-metric attendance system compulsory for the students to avoid fake attendance in all degree colleges across the state. The department would direct all colleges to set up the new attendance system by the end of this academic year.
Along with avoiding the fake attendance, it was decided to introduce this system to put an end to the allegation that the lecturers would not take classes at regular timings. If the new system is adopted, the number of absentee students would come down and it would avoid the teachers spending time sitting idle at the staff rooms.
The department has decided to implement this system in all degree colleges and universities for students and teaching staff. Every student and teacher should give his or her thumb impression while coming inside and going outside the college campus.
Data registration
During thumb impression while coming inside or going outside, the data of the students would be stored in the server. Since the data would be linked to the examination system, the students who would not get sufficient attendance would not get hall tickets for exams.
Applies to engineering colleges too
This decision would apply to engineering and polytechnic colleges in the state. The Higher Education department would shortly call a tender for installing the bio-metric system in all colleges.
‘Students of a particular university have given complaint that the teachers are not taking classes regularly. I have informed the vice chancellor of the concerned university to solve the problem”.
- GT Deve Gowda, Higher Education Minister
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TN polls: TVK pushes DMK behind with leads in 83 seats, AIADMK ahead in 54
Chennai (PTI): New entrant TVK, led by actor-politician Vijay, was leading in as many as 83 constituencies on Monday when counting of votes polled in the April 23 Assembly polls was on across Tamil Nadu. The AIADMK was leading in 58 seats while the ruling DMK was ahead in 34, EC data showed.
About two hours after the postal ballots were counted and EVMs opened for multi-round counting, Vijay's Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam surged ahead of its Dravidian rivals-- the DMK and the AIADMK, with the ruling party struggling to catch up.
If the trends maintain, Vijay could as well ensure the biggest electoral upset, something in lines with the "1967,1977" wins he had referred to in his campaign speeches.
While the Dravidian stalwart CN Annadurai brought the first non-Congress government in Tamil Nadu post-independence in 1967, the charismatic MG Ramachandran (MGR) installed the maiden AIADMK government 10 years later, unseating then DMK government under M Karunanidhi. TVK was leading in most Chennai segments, all considered DMK strongholds and currently represented by the party in the 234-member House.
A poor show by DMK could belie most exit polls giving an edge to it, riding on the number of populist measures Chief Minister M K Stalin had implemented in his five year "Dravidian model," inclusive governance.
According to EC and TV reports, 15 cabinet ministers, including Stalin were trailing. His son and deputy CM Udhayanidhi was also behind in his incumbent Chepauk-Tirvuvallikeni seat, according to a number of reports.
Stalin was trailing behind TVK's VS Babu by 1234 votes in Kolathur segment. Vijay was ahead in Tiruchirappalli East by over 3,000 votes at the end of two rounds of counting, according to EC data.
BJP is trailing in 26 constituencies and it is ahead in Thali segment alone. TVK is ahead in constituencies including Ponneri, Tiruvallur, Poonamalle, and Avadi.
AIADMK is leading in segments including Katpadi, and Guidyattam and party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami is ahead in Edappadi segment by 7003 votes.
DMK was leading in segments including Vellore, Anaikattu and Rishivandiyam.
