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Sindh’s newly introduced facial recognition attendance system for government school employees has encountered technical difficulties during its initial rollout, with some staff members unable to record their attendance through the new digital application.
The Facial Recognition Attendance Monitoring and Evaluation System (FRAMES) is currently being tested on a pilot basis in six districts: Karachi East, Hyderabad, Naushahro Feroze, Jacobabad, Ghotki and Umerkot.
The pilot covers around 49,565 teaching and non-teaching employees working in government schools across these districts. The system is intended to replace traditional paper-based attendance with a digital monitoring mechanism.
During the initial use of the FRAMES mobile application, some employees reportedly faced server-related problems. Others received errors indicating that their schools had not been properly assigned to their accounts.
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Because of these issues, some staff members were unable to complete the facial verification process despite making repeated attempts. In such cases, schools had to rely on the manual attendance system as an alternative.
FRAMES has been designed to improve attendance monitoring, transparency and staff accountability in government schools. Employees are expected to record their attendance when arriving at school and again when leaving.
The application uses facial recognition technology to verify an employee’s identity and records the relevant attendance time. The system is also designed to support offline attendance functionality, which could help in areas where internet connectivity is unreliable.
Another feature allows employees to submit leave applications through the application and view or download their monthly attendance records.
The technical difficulties reported during the pilot are likely to provide authorities with useful information for improving the system before a wider rollout. Pilot testing is generally intended to identify problems related to server capacity, account assignments, application performance and user verification.
Authorities are expected to assess the performance of FRAMES before extending the system to more government schools across Sindh. If the technical issues are resolved, the digital system could provide education authorities with a more centralized way to monitor teacher attendance, punctuality and absenteeism.
For now, the pilot phase remains important for determining whether FRAMES can operate reliably across Sindh’s public school network before becoming a wider attendance system.
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