With an intention of keeping 1038 district employees connected and ensuring their timely presence at job place, north Gujarat’s Patan district has come up with ‘Present please project’.

For this novel project, a private company has manufactured a software which will cover cug handsets of 1038 employees of the Patan District Panchayat. Every person will be given one number and if the person is transferred, then too the numbers would not change. When employees reach the place of their work, they will have to SMS the District Panchayat, this is an SMS based attendance verification system powered by Global Positioning System(GPS), so it can show the location of the officer.This can help in confirming the presence of the employees. The cost of this will be only Rs 50 per officer.

Not only this but SMS or notifying presence has to be sent everyday and if the person is late or has not messaged then it will be considered absence, and if the employee is absent 3 times in a row than the direct report of this goes to his senior. Officials have stated that this will decrease the irresponsible attitude of the employees, and since it also gives the presence and location of the employees it will also speed up the work of the district panchayat.

Patan is a district that relies on agriculture and animal husbandary on a large scale. For this the people have to reach for the Village Sevak, Talati or the District Panchayat but it is not convenient for them everytime and because of this they have to incur a financial loss as well as they lose the time to take care of thier profession. It is expected that the new mobile series will also connect the people with the government in better way.