Kathmandu Metropolitan City Develops Integrated Attendance System for Community Schools

Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has developed its own integrated attendance system for teachers, staff, and students of community schools. The Education Department and the Information Technology Department have developed their own system and connected community schools to this integrated platform.

All schools have been provided with a 'Username' and 'Password'. Furthermore, data entry and face reading have already been completed for teachers and staff at Janakalyan Secondary School, Tangal Secondary School, Geetamata Secondary School, Gyanodaya Secondary School, Tarun Secondary School, Ratnarajya Secondary School, Padmodaya Secondary School, Janapath Secondary School, and Bishwa Niketan Secondary School.

The process of entering student data and face reading is currently underway, informed Keshav Prasad Gyawali, acting chief of the Education Department. KMC's internal human resources worked on developing this system.

This development is beginning to reduce KMC's dependency on external entities for system development. Following the system's development, staff working in school accounting and administration have received training on operating the attendance system.

Training has enabled schools themselves to handle data entry, updates, and report generation. However, real-time monitoring of this information can be done through KMC's central system. Anirudra Nepal, Chief of the Information Technology Department, stated, "The development of KMC's own system is the biggest achievement. We no longer need to rely on consultants for services."

Information Technology Officer Engineer Madhav Khanal stated that after data entry into the system, there is a plan to link it with the Sub-National Treasury Regulatory Application (SUTRA).

This system will also feature individual profiles, allowing students to view their own details. KMC has also informed that as this system is further developed, it will be configured to send absence notifications to parents.