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Main Authors: Gupta, Satinder Bal, Guptab, Monika
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17419
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author Gupta, Satinder Bal
Guptab, Monika
author_facet Gupta, Satinder Bal
Guptab, Monika
contents The National Academic Depository of India is a distinctive, novel and progressive step visualized by Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India towards maintaining a database to hold the academic awards issued by Educational Institutions in an electronic and digital form. NAD promises to abolish the difficulties / inefficiencies of collecting, maintaining, and presenting physical paper certificates that can be easily copied / created and the verification processes which are costly, time consuming and disorganized. The depository can eradicate the need to store academic awards in physical form. It can verify the awards issued by different Institutions to the students in an easy way. The secure digital depository is a good proposal to do away with fake and forged certificates. The concept of academic depository is identical to the concept of financial securities. The pilot project is successfully completed with the help of Central Board of Secondary Education and some universities. In order to become fully functional, the depository has to conquer a few challenges with respect to academic diversities in terms of duration of courses and equivalence. National Academic Depository is a revolutionary effort towards the vision of Digital India.
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spellingShingle National Academic Depository: A Step Towards Digital India Vision
Gupta, Satinder Bal
Guptab, Monika
Digital Libraries
The National Academic Depository of India is a distinctive, novel and progressive step visualized by Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India towards maintaining a database to hold the academic awards issued by Educational Institutions in an electronic and digital form. NAD promises to abolish the difficulties / inefficiencies of collecting, maintaining, and presenting physical paper certificates that can be easily copied / created and the verification processes which are costly, time consuming and disorganized. The depository can eradicate the need to store academic awards in physical form. It can verify the awards issued by different Institutions to the students in an easy way. The secure digital depository is a good proposal to do away with fake and forged certificates. The concept of academic depository is identical to the concept of financial securities. The pilot project is successfully completed with the help of Central Board of Secondary Education and some universities. In order to become fully functional, the depository has to conquer a few challenges with respect to academic diversities in terms of duration of courses and equivalence. National Academic Depository is a revolutionary effort towards the vision of Digital India.
title National Academic Depository: A Step Towards Digital India Vision
topic Digital Libraries
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17419