UGC asks academic institutions to accept degree, mark-sheets & other docs in Digi Locker
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India, January 7: University grants commission on Friday issued a circular requesting all Academic institutions to accept Degree, Mark-sheets & other documents available in issued documents in DigiLocker account as valid documents.
Digi locker is an Indian digital service provided by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India under its Digital India initiative.
It is a secure cloud based platform for storage, sharing & verification of documents & certificates.
The circular stated, “The Ministry of Education, Government of India has designated the University Grants Commission (UGC) as an authorised body to implement NAD as a permanent scheme without levy of any user charges in co-operation with DigiLocker as a single depository of NAD. Academic Institutions can register themselves and upload academic awards of their institution on NAD through DigiLocker NAD portal.”
The circular further said, “The DigiLocker platform of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has the facility to pull students’ degree, marksheet and other documents into issued documents section in an electronic form once uploaded through the DigiLocker National Academic Depository (NAD) platform by the original issuer.”
Moreover, Many Central & state boards in India like the Central Board of Education (CBSE) & several institutions/universities have already started providing digital documents.
For access and sharing of the digital copies students can download DigiLocker app and register their accounts.
