VIJAYAWADA: The Andhra Pradesh government has made the installation of biometric attendance systems and eoffice facility mandatory in all government departments including district-level offices . The related government order was released on Wednesday.The state also constituted a three-member nodal authority to monitor and ensure the implementation of the e-office and biometric attendance systems.The secretary of the general administrative office will act as a nodal authority while director of the human resource department and administrative additional secretary were made the deputy nodal authority.The nodal authorities will monitor the implementation of programme at the secretariat and all government offices from the state-level to the district-level. The bio-metric attendance would be implemented even in the teleconferences, video conferences, state-level review meetings and district-level meetings.The nodal authorities would inspect all the government offices from time to time and instruct the employees and other staffers on biometric attendance. The e-office will also be inspected by the nodal authority where the employees would have to use the technology, computers and other programmes for file and note preparation and submission.