Updated: Do, 09 Oct 2025 06:25 am (IST) Himachal Teacher Rules Himachal Pradesh Education Department will change the rules for attending teachers in schools. Now online attendance will be done through facial recognition. The department made this decision after attending fraud cases in Shimla schools. The director of the department has instructed the deputy directors of all districts to perform schools for surprise inspections. Anil Thakur, Shimla. Himachal teachers attendance rules, education department will make a major change regarding attending teachers in the schools of Himachal Pradesh. Currently, online attendance of teachers is done by Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) mobile app. The department will update the software of this app. Remove ads Read only News This will include the feature of facial recognition for attendance. The department made this decision after fraud was revealed in the marking of attendance. There will be a meeting with officials soon. Now the attendance will only be taken by the app. Earlier, attending teachers was taken by both biometric and app. The attendance has now been made compulsory only by the app. Fraud was unveiled in Shimla’s school. The kind of fraud unveiled in Shimla’s school was even shocking to the department. The department officials did not even think that fraud could be done in this way. Therefore, there is now in it. There will be change, the inspection instructions Director School Education Department Ashish Kohli said this change will be made soon. He said that instructions were also given to the deputy directors of all the districts. They were asked to perform a surprise inspection of each school. The attendance of the school must be reviewed compulsively during inspection. There is no such irregularity in this. The attendance and leaves must also be seen by hand so that if any error occurs, action can be done. Case study-1 A case of fraud that attended came to light in the Mayfield School of the Capital Shimla. A teacher who worked in school held the SIM in her office. Here another person marked his attendance. When the team led by the deputy director did a surprise inspection in the school, the teacher was missing at the school and her attendance was placed online. The department issued a notice from the teacher to the teacher. Also reading and girl who is trapped in an offensive condition in Himachal government school, called principal parents of both. Case study 2 Another case also came to light in the Khalini School of Capital Shimla. The director of school education himself did a surprise inspection of the school. The principal was found absent, while the teachers taught from the help book. When the director asked the school staff, it was found that the principal was absent on September 8 and 9 without any prior notice or approved leave. The deputy director (higher education) in question was also unaware of this absence, nor was it received a leave application.
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