The Indian government’s centralized attendance monitoring website to monitor and track the work of all central government employees, attendance.gov.in, which was launched as ‘work in progress’ in early September, is now live. The website is using a free and open-source template created by Almsaeed Studio which is available on GitHub, as indicated by this Medium post. (Hat-tip: Rohin Dharmakumar) There also seems to be a lot of sloppy coding on the site. Read more here. How it works: To register, organizations have to upload a signed request by the head of the department and submit details of the nodal officer on the website, which is then verified by the back-end administrators. On verification, the nodal officer is sent an email with details which can be used to create a master list of locations of offices, designations and division or groups with the organization, on the website. Employees of the organization then go through a similar verification process using their Aadhaar number, without which, registration is not possible. Attendance is then verified using a six-digit number generated from the employee's Aadhaar number via a biometric scanner, which then uses a fingerprint scanner to confirm authentication. For the attendance system to work, network connectivity is essential, hence two types of connectivity options are being planned, a SIM-based GSM connected tablet and a Wi-Fi connected to NICNET/broadband systems. The website itself is aimed at increasing accountability and transparency at government agencies. As such, the website directly takes a user to the dashboard which…
