According to officials, teachers are required to download the app on their phone and mark attendance of students immediately after class. Teachers said the system of marking attendance in the register on a daily basis, and uploading it on the college website at the end of each month, is simpler. The National Democratic Teachers’ Front also wrote to the V-C, terming the action “illogical, illegal and unacademic”. Colleges that implemented a similar system in the past struggled with the technology, teachers claimed. Teachers at Acharya Narendra Dev College said the college purchased a software to mark attendance.

Source: Indian Express December 18, 2017 21:06 UTC