TAMS/SMILE Apps: All is Not Well
the recently launched TAMS (Teachers Attendance Monitoring System) /SMILE (Smart attendance Management and Informative Leave) apps, to ensure work for pay and also to enhance educational mechanism is a welcome sight to heading towards excellence but on this major development their are also some concerns and grievances against various setbacks
- Sir/ma'am,
- While acknowledging the recently launched TAMS (Teachers
Attendance Monitoring System) /SMILE (Smart attendance Management and
Informative Leave) apps, to ensure work for pay and also to enhance educational
mechanism is a welcome sight to heading towards excellence, echoing and
rallying behind some of my fellow teachers/writers/authors on this issue who
had voiced their concerns and grievances against various setbacks, I would also
like to supplement or add some few points likewise.
- Firstly, as meticulously pointed out by other writers, there
are system failures vis-a-vis inaccurate readings like marking a teacher as
'Late or Absent' despite being on time or being present, which candidly as a
result does not quite address the issue to which this whole 'hypothesis'
project is based upon.
- According to this new monitoring system, teachers are to
parade ourselves in front of this digital camera mechanism (provided by the
Govt.) twice a day to register punctualities, sign-in and sign out which again
is continuously and frustratingly accompanied and shadowed by technical snags.
- So, the bone of contention here is, even after all these
fuss and commotions, if we are still bogged down by these unnecessary hassles
and that which if it goes on, then perhaps this is more a harassment and
torment rather than aiming to reach its zenith of paradigm shift in educational
system. Nevertheless the endgame as a result here is all but a 'Farce' than
'Reality'.
- Secondly, while the concept, TAMS (Teachers Attendance
Management System), as the name suggests. may explicitly be confined to
teachers alone, the concept SMILE (Smart attendance Management and Informative
Leave) maybe not categorically or necessarily confined only to teachers but to
all government employees as well for the simple reason that, not only teachers
are the paid/salaried government servants/employees.
- Thirdly, not only in the educational department are there,
these contemplating issues of punctualities or proxies or irregularities etc.,
but this same menace could well be existing in other departments too, so here's
the catch. If at all, someone is to opine that there are never such anomalies
in other departments and everything is crystal clear and 100% clean, then we
leave it to God to judge, but if not, is this not one sided prosecutions and
discriminations at its highest? After all, at the end of the day, teachers too
are also only but humans.
- Amento Sema GT
- (amentovsema@gmail.com)
