Hyderabad: NMC directs all medical colleges to shift to face-based authentication to mark attendance

At present, all private/ government medical colleges in the country are marking attendance of faculty and staff through AEBAS (Aadhar Enabled Biometric Attendance System) system.

Hyderabad: The National Medical Commission (NMC), the regulatory authority of medical education in the Country, on Wednesday directed all medical college and institutions and shift to face-based Aadhar authentication to mark attendance from May 1, 2025.

At present, all private/ government medical colleges in the country are marking attendance of faculty and staff through AEBAS (Aadhar Enabled Biometric Attendance System) system.

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To leverage the latest technology and to make attendance process user friendly, the NMC has decided to fully shift to face-based Aadhaar authentication for marking attendance from May 1, the NMC in a notification on Wednesday said.

The face based Aadhaar authentication with UIDAI RD (registered device) is currently in use in various Government offices through National Informatics Centre (NIC).

To smoothly implement face-based AEBAS attendance recording system, medical colleges have been directed to share their GPS location with NMC, which will enable to mark the attendance within 100 meter radius of given GPS location in the college.

Medical colleges will have to share the information to NMC through email id support.aebas@nmc.org.in by April 20, 2025, with signature and stamp of the Dean/ Principal of the College/Institute.

All medical colleges will have to install the face-based based Aadhaar Authentication App (mobile phone based), available in Android and Apple play store to their mobile phones.

The face authentication app will be activated from April 24 and medical colleges facing difficulties should bring to the notice of technical team before April 30, 2025.