Biometric attendance must for colleges: Osmania University

The Osmania University directed all its affiliated colleges to procure and install biometric attendance machines.

At a meeting of 160 principals and correspondents of affiliated colleges at the Professor G Ram Reddy Centre for Distance Education, OU on Friday, Prof. S Ramachandram, Vice-Chancellor, OU stressed upon the mandatory introduction of bio-metric attendance system for faculty and students to enhance the



quality of teaching.

The university wants the colleges to procure machines from Telangana State Technology Services, in line with a memorandum of understanding between them.

OU Registrar, Prof Ch. Gopal Reddy, Prof. C. Venugopal Rao, Director, Academic Audit, Dr AV Rajashekar and Prof B. Sudhaker Reddy, Joint Director were also present in the meeting.