Pakistan, Aug. 16 -- The Sindh School Education Department has completed preparations for the launch of the Facial Recognition Attendance Monitoring and Evaluation System (FRAMES) in government schools across the province. The pilot phase of the system will formally begin on August 17 in six districts of Sindh.

For the pilot phase, one district from each division has been selected. The districts include Karachi East, Hyderabad, Naushehro Feroze, Jacobabad, Ghotki and Umerkot. In the initial phase, the attendance of 49,565 teaching and non-teaching staff members in these districts will be monitored through FRAMES.

Sindh Minister for Education Syed Sardar Ali Shah said that FRAMES was being launched initially as a pilot initiative in six ...