Archive · 27 Aug 2026
MP Teachers To Get Relief For Genuine E-Attendance Delays
Teachers in Madhya Pradesh must record their attendance electronically.
Some teachers have opposed the mandatory system.
The education department plans to let cluster principals help when teachers face genuine delays.
These principals may consider technical or practical problems.
About 98% of teachers are already recording attendance every day.
Teachers who lost money from their June salaries may be paid if they used the system regularly in July and August.
Teachers who are often late or do not record attendance may still face salary deductions.
The department is expected to explain the new rules in a circular soon.
Madhya Pradesh’s school education department plans to empower cluster principals to consider genuine delayed e-attendance cases.
A circular expected shortly will outline when principals can grant relaxation for delayed attendance marking.
The department says about 98% of teachers are marking e-attendance daily.
Technical and practical difficulties may qualify for relief, while habitual noncompliance or misuse will continue to attract action.
Teachers whose June salaries were withheld or deducted may receive payment if they regularly marked attendance in July and August.
- Who
- Madhya Pradesh school teachers, cluster principals, and the school education department.
- What
- Cluster principals are expected to receive limited authority to grant relief for genuine delays in marking e-attendance.
- When
- A circular is expected shortly; the salary decision concerns deductions or withholding in June and attendance during July and August.
- Where
- Across districts of Madhya Pradesh.
- Why
- To address genuine technical or practical difficulties while continuing action against habitual late reporting, missed attendance, or misuse of the system.
- Attendance compliance
- About 98% of teachers mark e-attendance every day.
- Planned authority
- Cluster principals will be authorised to consider requests involving delayed e-attendance.
- Eligible difficulties
- Genuine technical or practical problems may be taken into account.
- Circular
- The school education department is expected to issue guidelines shortly.
- June salary action
- Teachers whose salaries were withheld or deducted in June may receive payment.
- Eligibility for payment
- The payment decision applies to teachers who regularly marked e-attendance in July and August.
- Continuing enforcement
- Habitual late reporting or failure to mark attendance may still result in salary deductions or action.