3.RYK guidelines - Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu - Centre for Good Governance

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Biometric Attendance
System
Getting accurate information on attendance of trainees from the Training Centres
is foreseen as one of the major challenges in effective implementation of RYK. biometric
system of attendance is one of the key interventions to prevent defrauding of attendance
at the Training Centre level. RYK has made the biometric attendance of candidates who
are under training and placement process as obligatory in the Training Centres. This
would enable in monitoring the attendance by all stakeholders at different level on daily
basis.
All Sub-Missions / Training Partners shall make arrangement for procuring and
installing the biometric devices at all Training Centres. They should finalise the vendors
for supply of biometric devices in consultation with Centre for Good Governance for
enabling the updation of attendance information into RYK portal.
7.1 Objectives of Bio-metric Attendance System
i. Capturing Course wise and Centre wise attendance of the candidates on real
time basis.
ii. Monitoring the status of attendance of a training programme.
iii. Making the biometric attendance linked payments to Training Partners towards
training, boarding and lodging costs.
iv. Excluding the fake trainees
7.2 Procurement of Appropriate Biometric Devices
i. Responsibility of installing and maintaining biometric attendance machine in
all training centres shall be the responsibility of Training Partner / Sub-Mission
as the case may be.
ii. Sub-Mission/ Training Partner should select the bio-metric devices basing upon
features like storage capacity, minimum error factor, tamper proof,
authenticated data and ability to transmit the data to RYK portal atregular
intervals. Specification of such machines as prescribed by dept. of IT&C is
placed at Annexure 9.
iii. The device should display the candidate name and ID number for verification
at the training centre level. The biometric devices should store the data of the
candidates up to one year and the data shall be transferrable to RYK server
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