A screenshot of the facial recognition attendance system (APFRS) utility

Even because the Andhra Pradesh authorities has made it obligatory for all authorities workers together with common, contract, outsourced and people of village, ward secretariats, firms and public sector undertakings to mark their attendance by facial recognition app, solely above 1 lakh of the focused 8 lakh workers have downloaded the cellular utility, in keeping with Google Playstore.

The brand new system got here into power from January 16 throughout the State. All the staff have been instructed to obtain the APFRS utility developed by the ITE&C division, which is obtainable at https://appstore.herb.apcfss.in/  

The APFRS is an Synthetic Intelligence-based cellular utility to seize clocking information utilizing facial recognition know-how. The Google Play Retailer means that greater than 1 lakh folks have downloaded the applying to this point. 

Nonetheless, some workers are opposing the brand new system. “The sector-level workers throughout the State are going through issues as they can not obtain the app resulting from many causes resembling lack of correct cellphones, entry to community and nature of their work amongst others. A majority of the income workers work within the discipline they usually can’t come to the workplace to mark their attendance. They need to be allowed to mark their attendance from the sector,” stated Income Providers Affiliation president Bopparaju Venkateswarlu.

He says private safety is one other drawback. “Many workers wouldn’t have good telephones. The federal government should present cellphones to all the staff. The federal government has applied the brand new system with out contemplating many urgent points related to it,” he stated. 

Mr. Venkateswarlu stated there are greater than 4.3 lakh common workers, almost 1.3 lakh workers are working at village and ward secretariats, about 2 lakh contract and outsourcing workers, other than greater than 60,000 workers working in firms and public sector undertakings.

“Many workers of the Income Division are going through issues in downloading the app or accessing Web services. The union has advised them to submit it in writing to their greater authorities,” stated Mr. Venkateswarlu.

In the meantime, the federal government has exempted the village income officers and surveyors engaged within the re-survey train in 2,000 villages from marking their attendance by the facial recognition app, he stated, including that such exemption should be prolonged to all the sector workers throughout the State.