RailTel Corporation of India Ltd State-owned on Wednesday said that it has implemented an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based attendance system for 48,000 government schools across the Assam. RailTel has completed the work of deploying an Artificial Intelligence-based identification system for capturing attendance and management of Student Database Management Information System (SDMIS) for government schools in Assam, the company said in a statement.

The system covers approximate 48,000 schools in all 33 districts. RailTel has configured, to customize and deployed this Artificial Intelligence-based identification system for capturing attendance across all the elementary, secondary and higher secondary schools, it to be added.

The total project value for RailTel is 19.20 crore, out of which 12 crore is a one-time cost being released post completion for the project. The cost for maintenance for the project is 3.96 crore annually with a scope of AMC for two years in the current scope for the work.

The statement said RailTel has completed this project in four months. RailTel chairman and MD Puneet Chawla said that with the pandemic rapidly changing in the world; all important sectors such as health or education are leaning towards cutting edge digital technologies to adapt to the new normal.