India Kerala Makes Tender

Left Democratic Front LDF government in Kerala has made Aadhaar-based attendance compulsory for all government offices in the state.As per the decision within a period of 6 months all government offices will be installing Aadhaar-based biometric attendance systems. With this nearly around 560000 officials from those in the secretariat to government school staff will need an Aadhaar number for drawing their salaries.As per a statement in the 6th May order The Aadhaar-based biometric punching system should be set up in SPARK Service and Payroll Administrative Repository for Kerala linked disbursal of salaries in all government offices education centres.This move contradicts the decision taken by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayans Communist Party of India Marxist or CPM. A protest was held by the party leaders against the centres decision of mandatorily linking of Aadhaar to government benefits. Later the Supreme Court granted approval for the centre to link Aadhaar for subsidies.