Gandhinagar, India: In order to check the rising cases of absenteeism among the students and teachers, the Gujarat government has decided to install biometric system in state-run primary schools to mark the attendance of teachers and students, announced an official in the chief minister's office on Sunday.

The decision was taken after a directive issued by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to the chiefs of all seven municipal corporations in the state. According to the official, it aims to entirely revamp the educational system.

It was mentioned in the directive that the schools have to start looking for a software that records the attendance of teachers and students using biometrics. However no deadline has been fixed for installing the software.

The attendance of teachers and students would be monitored by the state government on a daily basis, not only to check the dropout rate but also whether teachers are regularly present in schools. The biometric attendance data would have to be uploaded on to the websites by the municipal school authorities on a daily basis.