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With regards,
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27 June 2013

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Thursday, 2 January 2020

MAD goes to Mandi





MAD =  Mobile Attendance Device


Mandi = 1834 seasonal mandis of Punjab Mandi Board ( PNB )




Context :


Extract :

Ø  Ravi Bhagat, Secretary, PMB said ,

“Earlier the employees used to mark attendance either through wall-mounted biometric machines or offline attendance process”.
But at times these machines developed some faults, and then many employees chose to visit the mandi directly instead of coming to the office to mark attendance. But this also meant that there was no way to keep track of who is working and who is not.

“So to keep a track of all those field employees and also for their convenience, we introduced the e-PMB app. With its use, field employees can mark their attendance from outside offices as well,” said Bhagat.


Ø  The app also tracks the location of the employee and an employee’s salary has been attached to the online report of this app.


Ø  “Punjab Mandi Board has a total of 4,766 employees across the state and out of these 45 per cent mark their attendance using this app as they are the regular field workers,” said Bhagat.


Ø  The app was introduced in September last year and in just one year, the attendance of employees has improved by over 60 per cent. The app also allows employees to apply for leaves.

Ø  But the app is not just about employees. While initially the app was only meant for employee attendance, from February this year, PMB added many features in the app through which farmers could even get an online stall booked for “apni mandi” ( weekly fruit and vegetable market).
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Dear Shri Ravi Bhagat ,

Secretary – Punjab Mandi Board (  pmb.secretary@punjab.gov.in  )



At the outset, Congratulations for introducing e-PMB app



Then adding features for :


Ø  Location tracking

Ø  Salary Payments ( linked to attendance )

Ø  Leave Application

Ø  Online Stall Booking……….etc



Some 42 MONTHS back , by sending following email,  I suggested to the Central Government to gradually introduce a Mobile Attendance Device [ MAD ] based Attendance System,  to replace Biometric Attendance Devices [ BAD ] based current system,



From BAD to MAD    [ 01 June 2016 ]


            
If all the employees of all the establishments in India were to start marking their attendance using MAD ( - instead of BAD ), then , over a period of a few months, following advantages will ensue as “ byproducts “  :



#   For employees , no need to file a separate annual Income Tax Return


#   Direct deposit of PF / TDS amounts into bank accounts of Govt Depts


#   Direct Benefit Transfer ( DBT ) to every Employer for Stipend Subsidy ,
     based on number of total trainees / apprentices employed


#   Total number of employees in India ( category / region / industry )


#   Employment Density ( Industry wise / Region wise / Skill wise etc )


#   Net Employment Growth Rate ( weekly - monthly / Industry-wise )


#   Co-relation with no of persons graduating at various levels


#   Data about those Unemployed ( " Graduating " less " Employed " )


#   Overtime Statistics ( Use / Abuse )


#   Work-hour Analysis ( Ave hours / week - month )


#   Wage / Salary Rates ( Rs per hour ) - Industry wise / Region wise


     ( of great interest to Foreign Investors looking to bring down
       manufacturing costs , by outsourcing to India / manufacturing in India )


#   Compliance with labour laws / tax laws / Apprentice Act etc


#   Job Market Forecasts through BIG DATA ANALYTIC ( region / industry )


#   Demographic  Profiles of employees  ( Rural to Urban migration )


#   Per Capita Income Growth for persons using MAD app  ( MOM / YOY )


#   Changing composition between Blue Collar and White Collar employees



Detailed working of MAD is described in my above-mentioned blog / email 




Dear Shri Bhagat,



Now that you have PROVED the superiority of the Mobile Based Attendance system , I hope the Central Government will make a beginning by implementing the same for its own 32 lakh employees



By sending this blog as email, I am requesting


Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 

( Minister for HRD / nishankramesh@gmail.com ),


 - to ask you to give him , a demonstration of the e-PMB system implemented by you



With regards,


Hemen Parekh


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03 Jan 2020

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

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