The
sign of changing times is showing in the revenue offices of Aurangabad
district with the talathis recording their attendance at offices through
selfies. However, technical hiccups in the pilot project are resulting
in poor response.
The selfie may have entered the popular lexicon recently but the district collector picked it up for administrative use after receiving several complaints of irregular attendance of talathis. Four months ago, the collector issued directives to the 371 talathis in the district to send their 'selfies' to the district administration daily once they reach office.
However, only 132 talathis have been sending their selfies daily since the pilot project was launched. The rest have cited reasons such as difficulties in operating android phones or network-related problems in interior parts of the district for their inability to participate in the project.
District collector Vikram Kumar said, "This is a first of its kind of project in the state and we are hopeful of achieving desired results. Accordingly, it may be used for all the field related staff."
The collector had asked the talathis to install 'attendance', a mobile-based application developed by a firm in Mumbai. Every day, the talathi has to click a selfie at the office and share it through the application. It is directly noted at the server and application located at the collector's office and the attendance is updated. The application has an inbuilt GPS system that provides the location from where the talathi clicks the selfie.
Revenue officials said the work schedule of every talathi is fed into the server regularly and if a talathi sends his selfie from any location other than the official programme, the system will mark his attendance but give a blinking message 'Bad location' against his name.
Satish Tupe, working president of the state talathi union, said the initiative taken up by the Aurangabad district collector is worth appreciating and the implementation of the pilot project was finalised only after a meeting between the collector and representatives of the union.
"The 300 talathis in the district did not have smartphones so the union decided to purchase the phones for them. Accordingly, a smartphone costing Rs 6,000 each was given to the talathis," Tupe said.
District Talathi Association president Anil Suryawanshi told TOI that a majority of the talathis are not tech savvy, so initially the challenge was to make them familiar with smart phones and the installed application. The other challenge faced by them is network problem in rural areas, followed by load shedding."
Suryawanshi said that initially only 50 talathis marked their attendance through the application, but the number has now gradually increased to 132. "We are trying to solve the problems and have convinced all the talathis to install the updated version of the application to ensure 100% result in a month," he said.
The selfie may have entered the popular lexicon recently but the district collector picked it up for administrative use after receiving several complaints of irregular attendance of talathis. Four months ago, the collector issued directives to the 371 talathis in the district to send their 'selfies' to the district administration daily once they reach office.
However, only 132 talathis have been sending their selfies daily since the pilot project was launched. The rest have cited reasons such as difficulties in operating android phones or network-related problems in interior parts of the district for their inability to participate in the project.
District collector Vikram Kumar said, "This is a first of its kind of project in the state and we are hopeful of achieving desired results. Accordingly, it may be used for all the field related staff."
The collector had asked the talathis to install 'attendance', a mobile-based application developed by a firm in Mumbai. Every day, the talathi has to click a selfie at the office and share it through the application. It is directly noted at the server and application located at the collector's office and the attendance is updated. The application has an inbuilt GPS system that provides the location from where the talathi clicks the selfie.
Revenue officials said the work schedule of every talathi is fed into the server regularly and if a talathi sends his selfie from any location other than the official programme, the system will mark his attendance but give a blinking message 'Bad location' against his name.
Satish Tupe, working president of the state talathi union, said the initiative taken up by the Aurangabad district collector is worth appreciating and the implementation of the pilot project was finalised only after a meeting between the collector and representatives of the union.
"The 300 talathis in the district did not have smartphones so the union decided to purchase the phones for them. Accordingly, a smartphone costing Rs 6,000 each was given to the talathis," Tupe said.
District Talathi Association president Anil Suryawanshi told TOI that a majority of the talathis are not tech savvy, so initially the challenge was to make them familiar with smart phones and the installed application. The other challenge faced by them is network problem in rural areas, followed by load shedding."
Suryawanshi said that initially only 50 talathis marked their attendance through the application, but the number has now gradually increased to 132. "We are trying to solve the problems and have convinced all the talathis to install the updated version of the application to ensure 100% result in a month," he said.
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