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ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) is going to introduce biometric attendance system for the teaching and non-teaching staff of its 422schools. A human resources management system (HRMS) is also being established by administration to enhance the functioning of capital’s educational body.

According to reports, the FDE has decided to increase the use of information technology (IT) for the monitoring and centralised control over 422 educational institutions in the federal capital. Employees’ attendance, time response, productivity, performance and profile management will be recorded through new IT system. The convergence of attendance from manual to automatic system will enhance the FDE’s capability on decision support and evaluation of an employee against the defined key performance indicators.

The biometric attendance system would also cater the attendance report of the employees of schools and colleges that are working under the FDE whereas the HRMS will use to collect and organise the profiles of employees of FDE.

The FDE administration has already floated a tender to seek bids from the qualified IT firms. The tender sought the expertise of the firms to develop a comprehensive HRMS software, biometric attendance and distribution, installation, configuration of biometric machines at educational institutions across the federal capital.

While talking to the Daily Times the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Secretary Khalid Hanif said, “The bidding process is under progress and the FDE administration has opened the received bids on February 11th but the contract would be granted to the successful IT firm after the scrutiny and comparison of all received proposals.”

The biometric attendance system would also ensure the time and attendance against the employees’ job shifts and responsibilities and also enhance the control of administration over the work force by monitoring them on regular bases. The HRM system will empower the administration to effectively manage the transfers, leave applications and shifts of the staff.

The steps to convert attendance of the teachers and staff on biometric system and development of HRM system are being proceeded under the Prime Minister Education Reforms Programme (PMERP).

This is a step, which is being initiated by administration to restructure the FDE whereas other steps like installation of biometric system in FDE head office, formulation of revised recruitment rules are also under process.

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