Kathmandu Metropolitan City Integrates Over 36,000 Students and Staff into Digital Attendance System

Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has integrated 36,280 students, teachers, and staff into an integrated digital attendance system.

As part of the initiative to make schools technology-friendly, KMC's Education Department Chief, Namraj Dhakal, informed that 36,280 individuals from 83 schools—including students studying in community schools, working teachers, Early Childhood Development Center facilitators, Ayahs, and all other types of staff—have been enrolled in the integrated digital attendance system.

Following the directive issued by Acting Chief Sunita Dangol on Magh 13 to implement the integrated electronic attendance system in schools, the Education Department and the Information Technology Department commenced work to bring the school community onto the technology platform.

The data entry, updating, and report generation capabilities were developed, allowing the school's own personnel to input the statistics into the system. Department Chief Dhakal stated that KMC has approximately 45,000 individuals across all grades up to Grade 10, including teachers, staff, and students.

The department had previously decided that grants and disbursements sent to schools starting from Chaitra 1, 2082 BS, would be based on the data and records linked to the attendance system.

During a meeting with community school principals organized by the department on Falgun 13 and 14, Dhakal urged them to complete the remaining e-attendance work immediately, warning that grant funds could not be sent if the system was not implemented effectively.

Surveys for physical infrastructure development in schools are currently underway. NPR 360 million has been allocated for this purpose in the current fiscal year. According to Department Chief Dhakal, the infrastructure master plan has been prepared for four schools in the first phase and 11 schools in the second phase. The preparation of detailed project reports for 23 schools is ongoing in the third phase.

Targeting the Secondary Education Examination (SEE) of 2082 BS, special preparatory classes are being conducted by subject matter experts and resource teachers in six schools in the first phase and five schools in the second phase, totaling 11 schools. Furthermore, the Education Department will arrange classes if other schools submit written requests for special classes.

KMC plans to complete the rationalization of teaching positions by the end of Chaitra 2082 and manage teachers according to the new staffing structure starting from the new academic session in Baisakh 2083.