Andhra Pradesh makes facial attendance for top IAS officers mandatory

“Turn up at the Secretariat, face the camera, mark your attendance.” That is the new mandatory Standard Operating Procedure prescribed for IAS officers in Secretary level and above in Andhra Pradesh.

The government has brought in the Facial Recognition System (FRS) mobile application with Geographical Information System (GIS) tagging for marking the daily attendance of Secretary, Principal Secretary and Special Chief Secretary-rank IAS officers posted in the AP Secretariat Departments.

This is the first-of-its-kind system, for the top bureaucrats, in the country. The FRS went live on October 6, with the captured data directly accessed by the Chief Secretary.