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This will help detect the late arrivals and early leaving of employees, among other benefits.
Sharing of biometric information or its use for any purpose other than the generation of the Aadhaar number and authentication under the Aadhaar Act is impermissible.
Once the new system comes into force, the latecomers will either face a pay cut or loss of leave.
President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, which empowers police to obtain physical and biological samples of convicts and those accused of crimes.
The entrance to each office will have a biometric access point and it will be linked to the SPARK software that is used to disburse salaries.
Following widespread complaints about malpractices, the present system of assessing the number of students through a single-day verification process will be replaced by a scientific biometric attendance system.
With the implementation of the biometric punching, late permission-early exit system would be done away with.
The Education Department has issued a circular to complete the registration process for salary-linked biometric finger-print punching before December 24.
The machine and software to conduct this process will be provided by the UIDAI approved National Informatics Centre.