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== About == |
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NAD allows the lodging of academic awards through academic institutions in a digital format, maintaining the integrity of the awards lodged in the database. It allows students to retrieve their respective academic awards at any time. In addition to ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of the digital database of academic awards, NAD would be an effective deterrent to fake and forged paper certificates. Furthermore, it would reduce a lot of administrative efforts, as well as the need for institutions to preserve physical records related to academic performance of students over a long period of time. |
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Academic Institutions are held responsible for the authenticity of data digitally uploaded into NAD. Requests for access to academic awards for potential employers require the consent of the recipient. |
Academic Institutions are held responsible for the authenticity of data digitally uploaded into NAD. Requests for access to academic awards for potential employers require the consent of the recipient. |
Revision as of 22:28, 29 July 2018
National Academic Depository (NAD) is a digital storehouse of academic awards (degrees, diplomas, certificates, mark-sheets, etc.,) service initiated by the Government of India open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It is an interoperable system for storage, retrieval, authentication and verification of academic awards in digital format for students, academic institutions, boards, eligibility assessment bodies and other user/verifying entities like banks, employer companies, government agencies and academic institutions. The former President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the launch of National Academic Depository at the National Convention on Digital Initiatives organized by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India on 9th July 2017.
About
NAD allows the lodging of academic awards through academic institutions in a digital format, maintaining the integrity of the awards lodged in the database. It allows students to retrieve their respective academic awards at any time. In addition to ensuring the authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of the digital database of academic awards, NAD would be an effective deterrent to fake and forged paper certificates. Furthermore, it would reduce a lot of administrative efforts, as well as the need for institutions to preserve physical records related to academic performance of students over a long period of time.
Academic Institutions are held responsible for the authenticity of data digitally uploaded into NAD. Requests for access to academic awards for potential employers require the consent of the recipient.
The Academic Institutions specified above include the following:
- Central Universities.
- Central higher educational institutions and institutions empowered by an Act of Parliament to grant degrees/diplomas.
- Central higher educational institutions
- State universities.
- Private universities.
- Institutions approved by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
- Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), state school boards and other boards.
Background
The National Academic Depository Bill was originally introduced in the Lok Sabha on 5th September 2011 by the former Human Resource Development Minister, Shri Kapil Sibal. The bill was referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resource Development. However, the bill got lapsed in 2014 with the change of Government.
The Union Cabinet (under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi) in its meeting held on 27th October, 2016, has approved a Ministry of Human Resource Development’s proposal on the establishment and operation of the National Academic Depository (NAD) by entering into an agreement with NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML) and CDSL Ventures Ltd. (CVL)– both wholly owned subsidiaries of the Depositories registered under Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Act, 1992.
The NAD Bill proposed to make it mandatory for all specified academic institutions to lodge every academic award with the depository. The depository would establish a network of facilitation centers for candidates to submit dematerialization request of past academic certificates and requests for authentication. Academic institutions may also become depository agents. The system would also have the necessary security feature to ensure that only authorized users to have access to authorized functions. No expenditure from the government side was expected as it would be a full user service charge-based service provision with users being educational institutions, employers, and other stakeholders.
In the present system, only academic institutions are authorized to upload the certificates in digital format to the NAD.
Stakeholders
- Students and other academic award holders.
- Academic institutions/boards/eligibility assessment bodies.
- Verifying entities i.e. banks, employer companies (domestic & overseas), government entities, academic institutions/boards/eligibility assessment bodies (domestic and overseas) etc.
- Ministry of Human Resource Development/ University Grants Commission.
- Depositories i.e. NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML) and CDSL Ventures Limited (CVL).
Benefits
- Non-physical academic awards through facilitating their easy access and retrieval.
- Centralized database enabling verification of academic awards of various academic institutions at a single place.
- Online verification of academic awards through reducing the time and cost involved in verification.
- Reduction in the circulation of fake certificates by enabling online verification of authenticity of academic awards.
- Ease of procedure for obtaining duplicate and authenticated copy of certificates through the wide network of NAD agents.
- Facility to register certificate holder with NAD and map his / her certificates under one account.
Data details
According to the NAD website, data as of 11 May 2018:
- Academics Institutions registered - 468
- Students registered - 76,853
- Awards logged by academic institutions - 1,03,64,296
References
Additional Sources
- NAD Official website- www.nad.gov.in
- NAD Brochure
- THE NATIONAL ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY BILL, 2011
- Parliament Standing Committee Report in March 2012
- Budget Speech of 2016-17
- Cabinet approves establishment of National Academic Depository October 27, 2016
- Degree Screening goes digital The Hindu, October 28,2016
- Degree in National Academic Depository are Investment The Times of India, March 6,2017
- NAD Youtube channel
External links
- UGC website- www.ugc.ac.in
- Ministry of Human Resource Development