AGRA : In a bid to check the rampant fudging of faculty records in medical colleges, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided to start biometric attendance, linked to Adhaar Cards, in all medical colleges across the nation. The systems would be in place by mid of August in all government and private colleges.
Confirming the move, Dr Ajay Kumar, incharge of Digital Mission Mode Project (DMMP) said that 234 out of about 500 medical colleges have already installed the machines and completed the survey and the remaining are under process. He said, few states have created problem in installing the system but finally we have achieved the goal.
Talking to TOI, Director Medical Education (DME) in UP, Dr KK Gupta said that 35 institutes including 12 state medical colleges, three institutes and 20 private medical colleges will probably start using biometric system from August. The Medical Council of India will be able to monitor faculty and resident doctors’ attendance under the digital mission mode project.
“The malpractice of fudging faculty records to get approvals from MCI would end when the Aadhaar card details of faculty members are linked to biometric attendance devices,” he said.
Confirming the move, Dr Ajay Kumar, incharge of Digital Mission Mode Project (DMMP) said that 234 out of about 500 medical colleges have already installed the machines and completed the survey and the remaining are under process. He said, few states have created problem in installing the system but finally we have achieved the goal.
Talking to TOI, Director Medical Education (DME) in UP, Dr KK Gupta said that 35 institutes including 12 state medical colleges, three institutes and 20 private medical colleges will probably start using biometric system from August. The Medical Council of India will be able to monitor faculty and resident doctors’ attendance under the digital mission mode project.
“The malpractice of fudging faculty records to get approvals from MCI would end when the Aadhaar card details of faculty members are linked to biometric attendance devices,” he said.
Dr Renu Agarwal, Associate Professor in SN Medical College, Agra said that MCI teams are linking Aadhaar of around 570 doctors and the data would be online soon. She said the new system also envisage “one country one registration” under which doctors will be issued electronic Radio Frequency Identification enabled identity card to help monitor the attendance, salary and work status of the faculty.
She said, MCI would be able to locate the the doctor through this card during their duty hours so no one can skip their lectures or leave the institute after marking attendance.
A senior doctor told TOI that generally at the time of MCI inspection, many institutes fudged their faculty records to seek the medical education regulator’s approval to run their colleges.
MCI, in November last, had asked all the faculty members of government and private medical colleges to register their Aadhaar Card details so that it could be linked with the
biometric attendance system. The proposal to install biometric attendance system was conceptualised in 2009 and was stuck in red tape before being cleared recently.
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