Advisor for Prisons, Printing & Stationary H Haiying launched the Prison Staff Attendance App here at District Jail Kohima today. The app was developed in collaboration with Excellogies Tech Solution Pvt Ltd.

The Prison Staff Attendance is a mobile app along with an admin portal that aims to provide a comprehensive attendance management system that can make processes hassle free and provide a seamlessly integrated system for monitoring and tracking the attendance of employees.

Rupin Sharma, Director General of Prison, HG, CD and SDRF, said the idea came about when the department installed the biometric attendance machines at various places. However, the machines had several problems and it was at this point that the concept came about to develop an app with a QR based code attendance for all the jail establishments across the state.

The QR code will be at the entrance of all jail establishments.

In order to ensure that the employees do not manipulate or bluff the system, Sharma said the app was developed with unique features:

• The QR location where attendance will be tracked using QR locations – there will be separate QR locations generated from the software for both check-in or check-out.
• The Self Photo – this feature will allow employees to click a selfie and upload it before scanning the QR codes at the location to make sure that the employee is doing the check-in or check-out by themselves
• The Offline mode – in case of any connectivity issue, the employees can scan and upload the record. Once the connectivity is on, the scanned records will be uploaded automatically into the system with the scanned time zone.