The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed all varsities and schools to accept levels, marksheets and different paperwork obtainable in DigiLocker accounts as legitimate paperwork.
“As you’re conscious, the National Academic Depository (NAD) is a web-based storehouse of academic awards (levels and mark-sheets) lodged by the academic institutions in a digital format. It facilitates college students to get genuine paperwork and certificates in digital format straight from their authentic issuers anytime and anyplace with none bodily interference, the UGC stated in a letter to varsities.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has designated the UGC as an authorised physique to implement NAD as a everlasting scheme with out levy of any consumer prices in co-operation with the Digilocker as a single depository of NAD.
Academic institutions can register themselves and add academic awards of their establishment on NAD by way of Digilocker NAD portal.
The Digilocker platform of the Ministry of Electronics and Information expertise (MeitY) has the power to pull college students’ diploma marksheet and different paperwork into the issued paperwork part in an digital kind as soon as uploaded by way of the DigiLocker NAD platform by the unique issuer. These digital data obtainable on DigiLocker platform are legitimate paperwork as per the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
“To improve the attain of the NAD programmes, all academic institutions are requested to accept diploma, marksheets and different paperwork obtainable in issued paperwork in DigiLocker account as legitimate paperwork, it added.
(Only the headline and film of this report could have been reworked by the Business Standard workers; the remainder of the content material is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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