RTI: DU's attendance software to cost INR 1 cr. to the university till 2020

RTI: DU's attendance software to cost INR 1 cr. to the university till 2020

An RTI filed revealed that DU's Acharya Narendra Dev College (ANDC) is using software worth INR 60 lac to mark the attendance of the students. Another RTI revealed that college will continue to pay for the software till 2020 and will cross the mark INR 1 Cr.The RTIs were filed by Monica Misra, Former Academic Council (AC) member, and Zoology teacher. She found that the college had spent Rs 59,97,568 for purchasing the Entrance Resource Planning (ERP) software between 2014 and September last year. The software was purchased through MoU with the TCS. “As per the same calculation of Rs 14,42,100 spent on ERP every year, including the one-time deployment fee as well as the salary is given to the transformation manager, we have calculated that by the end of 2020, the college would have spent Rs 1.03 crore. This figure also includes the estimated cost of tablets given to roughly 120 teachers (Rs 36,000),” Misra said. Reacting to the cost, college principal Savithri Singh said, “Weʼre talking about an entire college's expenditure, not some small unit. I pay roughly Rs 1.8 crore in salaries to teachers every month. If we take the software on a trial basis, it works out to be very expensive. The whole process was very transparent; the software was demonstrated to 23 teachers. The software has 22 different functions in the college, including in admission, grading, and examination, library, and placement.”However, according to the teachers, the software is primarily used for attendance purposes.Regarding the purchase of the software, there are various concerns among the teachers. “Was there any analysis or discussion done on why the software was needed in the first place? Why couldnʼt they have used the software on a trial basis? How was TCS picked as the company? None of these things are being answered,” Misra said.

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