National Academic Depository A One-stop Portal For All Your Academic Awards
With the rise of technology, more and more institutions are switching to the online medium. The salient features of embracing the technological media is its efficiency, simplicity and the effortlessness in everyday lives. With a focus on digitising India, the Government of India has took progressive steps towards bringing administrative and academic reforms through the use of digital media. The process to develop such an online academic award portal requires ease of process. Be it verification, issuing duplicates or enhancing transparency, maintaining the integrity to access the online database is essential.
Presenting National Academic Depository (NAD), a one-stop academic award portal designed by CDSL to address factors related to storage, authenticity and verifiability of academic awards. NAD is an online portal where awards, marksheets, degree certificates, provision certificates and transfer certificates can be stored digitally in cloud based systems. NAD provides an electronic certificate facility to the students, institutions and employers, thus validating easy retrieval, safe storage and authenticity. Furthermore, students have the option to give consent to share their electronic degree certificates to a verifying entity who requires access, thus preserving the privacy.
A digital depository, NAD is essential for academic institutions, students and verifiers. With NAD, academic institutions can upload digital marksheets, digital transcripts and digital convocation certificates digitally while students can store, retrieve and forward their electronic certificates and verifiers can know about the authenticity through certificate verification. One of the salient feature is that the electronic certificates eliminates the spoilage and the forgery of the degree certificates. With a focus to provide an efficient solution through digital format of academic awards 24/7, National Academic Depository is significantly beneficial initiative for Academic Institutions, Students and Verifiers.