State-owned RailTel on Wednesday said it has implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based attendance system in 48,000 government schools across Assam.
RailTel has completed the deployment of AI-based identification system for attendance and management of SDMIS (Student Database Management Information System) in government schools in Assam, the company said in a statement.
It said, “The system covers 48,000 schools across all 33 districts. RailTel has configured, optimized and deployed this AI-based identification system to record attendance in all primary, secondary and higher secondary schools.”
The total project value for RailTel is Rs. 19.20 crore, out of which Rs. 12 crore is the one-time cost which is being released after the completion of the project.
“The maintenance cost of the project is Rs 3.96 crore per annum including for two years under the current scope of AMC. RailTel has completed the project in four months,” the statement said.
Talking about the project, Puneet Chawla, Chairman and MD, RailTel said that with the pandemic rapidly changing the world, all important sectors like health and education are leaning towards cutting-edge digital technologies to adapt to the new normal.
