UP Skill Development Mission introduces Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance to curb bogus enrollment

UP Skill Development Mission

In an initiative to check arbitrary admission in the name of skill development and to improve quality of training, the Skill Development Mission has introduced Aadhaar-based Biometric Attendance, which is proving to be highly effective. The move is ensuring transparency in the attendance process and weeding out anomalies such as bogus and inflated enrollment.

It is noteworthy that the Uttar Pradesh government, under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath, has intensified its drive to promote the use of technology in different departments to curb departmental pilferages and maintain transparency. The increasing use of technology in government functioning has been a game changer so far, as eliminating corruption and ensuring transparency are concerned.

The Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) is utilised for marking real time attendance of the enrolled candidate and carrying out the registration procedure efficiently.

Stressing the need for reform and transparency in the system, Mission Director Andra Vamsi said, “As part of an organisation, we have to ensure prevention of absenteeism, which unfortunately has been very high. So, we have introduced Aadhaar-enabled biometric centres to help prevent absenteeism at skill development centres.”

He further informed that out of three lakh candidates enrolled in the mission for the financial year 2021-22, only about 1.5 lakh have attended the courses and the rest 1.5 lakh are in the training pipeline. The Mission, through its District Project Management Unit, successfully conducted the mobilisation drive to pool up these absentees. But the noteworthy point is that financial payments are subject to the visibility of Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance of the candidates, which makes it easy for the Mission to do qualitative training.

According to him, the skill centres registered a large number of candidates but failed to mobilise them for the training. This may further inflate payments without the actual work being reflected. Hence, AEBAS turned out to be an excellent reform to induce timely payments on the basis of physical attendance.

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However, with the launch of Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance, the mission stopped payment of those skill centres that failed to physically present their trainees.

Private skill training centres are being paid Rs 30-50 per candidate, per hour for a minimum of 300 hours. By curbing such practices, the government has succeeded in saving at least Rs 9,000 per student.

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