A
medical college in India has struggled to ensure that its students are who they
say they are, and that’s why it’s proposed that biometric verification be
introduced widely across the country’s medical education institutions.
Authorities
from a medical College have sent the proposal to the director general
medical education, following the discovery of a number of ‘impostors’ at the
school, the Times of India reports.
Specifically,
in March of this year, the school discovered three students who weren’t present
for entrance exams. Someone else came to write the test for them.
According
to the report, if the director general approves the proposal and moves ahead
with the biometric integration, students will have to go through a biometric
verification process throughout their time at the medical colleges, but also
during admissions.
India
has adopted biometric attendance systems and workforce management systems for
its schools faster than any other region. What sets this new proposal apart is
that it is for identity verification, rather than attendance confirmation.
As
of yet, it is unclear how this system will be received by students and the
medical colleges as a whole, but school deployments aren’t always met with
optimism.
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