At government institutions around 60 percent of the employees were not able to enter their data into the machines. PHOTO: AFP
PESHAWAR: The biometric system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) flopped within three months of installation, Express News reported on Thursday.
A global positioning satellite (GPS)-based biometric system was installed in public as well as educational institutions to ensure 100% attendance.
Express News reported that employees were recording their attendance in registers.
At government institutions around 60 percent of the employees were not able to enter their data into the machines.
Some machines only worked for two days after installation.
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@Masood Mirza: Absolutely right, but which is it? Where are the details? Is it really so difficult for the newspaper to get hold of any details of the incident or possible causes of failure that it can muster only three lines saying "it failed" and stopping there? Surely, there has to be a reason. The fact that these details are missing make this piece of news highly suspect.
@Masood Mirza: Next time, make a valid point before imploding in your own verbal diaroha. PTI has accomplished more in KP in a few months than the current federal government can't even fathom in 10 terms (god forbid). Perhaps you should assess your party before pointing fingers at the people who are working hard to help people.
Instead of appreciating PTI's effort to get more children to school everyday, more "ghost" employees to government jobs everyday, this article targets PTI blatantly with no proof. If you are not aware this is the terrible state of our country where a child to a senior officer lie and do not want to work at school or their job. Wake UP!
Reminds me of the time railway ticketing system was computerized. Railway employees set the whole system on fire, literally, as they couldn't block seats any more to sell on black market.
Government seriously needs to get out of the business of providing jobs to people. Rather it should encourage private sector to do that through policies like tax breaks etc.
ET's quality is going down the barrel with every such piece of trash article
@Masood Mirza PTI trolls? lol dude they are raising valid points about reporting, look at the three liner saying system crashed. Provide details, do some investigation, report at least what caused the system to fail. As many said, it's more like "Hey i found something against PTI government, wow"
Even if the technology failed, it needs to be investigated and more needs to be done to implement it better. Most such Technology projects face issues all over the world.
The attacking comments on ET by the PTI Trolls prove that these Burger Kids can only sit on their computers to coverup the wrongdoings of their Lifetime Chairman. There could be many causes behind failure of an expensive setup eg, ill planning, selection of substandard material/machines, corruption in procurement, mismanagement etc. The KPK Government should feel accountable for wastage of Taxpayers Money!
Reading ET always seems like a rant from an immature teenager, please you have been in the news business now for years, show some maturity, fire idiots!!!
they are chinese machines yaar..they wont work..
@ggt: Hummm......my fellow people can get that much dumb enough.....I could not imagine. I live in Dubai, their is biometric service every where. Do you think this city is a jail???
@Arsalan:
Is there room for modern medicine, computers, airplanes, etc? What about passports, ID cards, bank account signatures?
After all. a Muslim will not lie about his identity at the airport, at a traffic stop or in the bank now, would he?
Jazzakallah!
Pathetic report. Absolutley pathetic. No details whatsoever.
@yousafhaque: There is no room for finger printing in Sharia. A Muslim employee will never lie about his check in check out timings. This biometric system is anti Islamic
It's the people who are not willing to use the system that will lead to poor utilization and ultimately failure. Those people who are dishonest in their attendance will never accept the system because this system demands punctuality and regularity otherwise their inefficiencies will be evident. So, the KPK govt. needs to take strong action against those who are trying to escape this system by using old and outdated register system where they can use proxy attendance and enjoy or go to some other job and cause damage to the government and people of Pakistan. The entire system can't go down all of a sudden except when there is a technical problem which can be sorted out by the techs. However, if there is any place that the EXpress Tribune is reporting, it must be clearly stated. This whole news looks like a fake and an example of non professional reporting.
@ggt:::Fingerprinting employees doesn't make them criminals rather it makes them punctual and responsible citizens.Only problem here is that we can not 'fingerprint' the mindset which has been corrupted to such limits that it has become essential to change it for the better if we intend to make ourselves a successful society
Please provide details. The news seems more like written out of joy for the systems(or only few machines) failure. Be more specific or people would stop reading the news posted by ET.
@Hasan:
"Exemplary" not "Examplary" "Their" not "There"
Thanks.
A great example of irresponsible reporting. Actually the system has not flopped or failed as it has been successively working in numerous countries. The main point is that our people need more education on using contemporary technology and we should work on it.
This report is good example of state of journalism in Pakistan.
@Hasan: will be fine by the passage of time .. it always happens whenever you start any new technology ....... not a big deal ..........at least they have take some good initiative, otherwise we have not seen anything new in 30 years ruling of PPP IN SIND AND 6 TERMS OF PML-N IN PUNJAB. same old systems and same old techniques to manipulate the nation ...
at least something good happening first time 6 months with inexperienced people, if they have given 5 years surely they will make good change in province ... but what about rest of provinces who ruling from ages, still comparing their performance with first time 6 month KPK gov it shame for them
What an examplary form of governance. PTI continues to make history of there failures
KPK government should try to run Biometric system properly, its only way to achieve better results....
ET if it is true, then disclose the information in comprehensive manner with reasons of failure and source of information. Otherwise this news story gives me a feeling of non professonal reporting.
I dont got any thing from this news, How it failed plz ET be more specific, either machines are faulty or what else is wrong?? May be people broke up that machines? Please do me investigation and bring details in that matter.
its not the failure of a system...our people just need to be educated(that will obviously take more than 3 months)...
IK plz check the administrators so that they can educate the people well in time...
What kind of news is this?. No details. It seems that ET was overwhelmed with joy after getting it and wanted it to post. Thats all.
Seems an incomplete report. More like a rumor. Like Someone heard it & wrote on is blog. No mention of any school name or a location where it failed. It doesn't mean that all devices have become faulty. Some of them must be working. If that is the case, am i able to challange the authenticity of this news in the first place?? ET!!! Responsibility..