<p>Bengaluru: To detect “ghost” faculty members, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has made it mandatory for all medical colleges across India to implement face-based Aadhaar authentication to mark staff attendance.</p>.<p>The NMC has decided to fully shift to the new system from May 1. In a public notice, the NMC has asked all the faculty members to install the face-based Aadhaar Authentication App (mobile phone-based) on their mobile phones. The application is available on Android Play Store and Apple App-store.</p>.<p>Currently the faculties of the medical colleges mark their attendance through Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS).</p>.Transfer of judges | Proceedings affected in Karnataka HC after Advocates’ Association of Bengaluru's boycott call.<p>“All Medical Colleges/Institutions NMC are presently marking attendance through the NMC AEBAS system. To leverage the latest technology and to make the attendance process user-friendly, the NMC has decided to fully shift to face-based Aadhaar authentication for marking attendance on NMC AEBAS from 01 st May 2025,” reads the public notice.</p>.<p>The face-based Aadhaar authentication with UIDAI RD is currently in use in various Government Offices through the NIC, the NMC stated.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the NMC has directed the colleges to share the GPS location of different points in the college with NMC so that the attendance can be marked within 100-meter radius of a given GPS location in the college. </p>.<p>“From 01st May, marking of attendance on NMC AEBAS vide Finger Authentication device will be discontinued and only the face bio-metric authentication will be permitted. Dean/Principals of all Medical Colleges/Institutions shall take necessary action for installation of above application to mobile phones of all faculties of their institution,” directed NMC. </p>.<p>In the public notice NMC clearly stated that it is to prevent ghost faculties.</p>.<p>“To prevent ghost faculties at medical colleges, the NMC has made it mandatory for all medical colleges across the nation to implement face-based Aadhaar authentication for marking attendance of faculties,” the NMC has said. From now on the NMC will directly monitor the faculty attendance.</p>.<p><strong>Medical colleges penalised</strong></p>.<p>It can be recalled that during the 2024 academic year, the NMC had penalised several medical colleges in Karnataka, including government ones, for not having adequate faculties.</p>.<p>Speaking to DH, a senior member of the Syndicate at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), said, “Ghost faculties is an age-old practice at medical colleges to pass through the NMC inspection. Ghost faculties will be present at the colleges only during the inspection to cover-up the faculty shortage and to get NMC nod.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">The member even said that ghost faculties are more seen in subjects like anatomy, biochemistry, forensic medicine, pharmacology and microbiology.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: To detect “ghost” faculty members, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has made it mandatory for all medical colleges across India to implement face-based Aadhaar authentication to mark staff attendance.</p>.<p>The NMC has decided to fully shift to the new system from May 1. In a public notice, the NMC has asked all the faculty members to install the face-based Aadhaar Authentication App (mobile phone-based) on their mobile phones. The application is available on Android Play Store and Apple App-store.</p>.<p>Currently the faculties of the medical colleges mark their attendance through Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS).</p>.Transfer of judges | Proceedings affected in Karnataka HC after Advocates’ Association of Bengaluru's boycott call.<p>“All Medical Colleges/Institutions NMC are presently marking attendance through the NMC AEBAS system. To leverage the latest technology and to make the attendance process user-friendly, the NMC has decided to fully shift to face-based Aadhaar authentication for marking attendance on NMC AEBAS from 01 st May 2025,” reads the public notice.</p>.<p>The face-based Aadhaar authentication with UIDAI RD is currently in use in various Government Offices through the NIC, the NMC stated.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the NMC has directed the colleges to share the GPS location of different points in the college with NMC so that the attendance can be marked within 100-meter radius of a given GPS location in the college. </p>.<p>“From 01st May, marking of attendance on NMC AEBAS vide Finger Authentication device will be discontinued and only the face bio-metric authentication will be permitted. Dean/Principals of all Medical Colleges/Institutions shall take necessary action for installation of above application to mobile phones of all faculties of their institution,” directed NMC. </p>.<p>In the public notice NMC clearly stated that it is to prevent ghost faculties.</p>.<p>“To prevent ghost faculties at medical colleges, the NMC has made it mandatory for all medical colleges across the nation to implement face-based Aadhaar authentication for marking attendance of faculties,” the NMC has said. From now on the NMC will directly monitor the faculty attendance.</p>.<p><strong>Medical colleges penalised</strong></p>.<p>It can be recalled that during the 2024 academic year, the NMC had penalised several medical colleges in Karnataka, including government ones, for not having adequate faculties.</p>.<p>Speaking to DH, a senior member of the Syndicate at Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), said, “Ghost faculties is an age-old practice at medical colleges to pass through the NMC inspection. Ghost faculties will be present at the colleges only during the inspection to cover-up the faculty shortage and to get NMC nod.”</p>.<p class="bodytext">The member even said that ghost faculties are more seen in subjects like anatomy, biochemistry, forensic medicine, pharmacology and microbiology.</p>