By TNL Bureau
Chandigarh March 8 – Haryana State Board of Technical Education is all set to issue digital Diplomas and Detailed Mark Certificates to its students from the current academic session 2017-18.
While stating this here today, a spokesman of the Board said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with Central Depository Services (India), a firm referred by the MHRD for utilizing the National Academic Depository (NAD) services.
He said that NAD provides an online storehouse of all academic awards and it is a 24X7 online storehouse of all academic awards viz. certificates, diplomas, degrees, DMC etc. duly digitized and lodged by academic institutions, boards and eligibility assessment bodies. NAD not only ensures easy access to and retrieval of an academic award but also validates and guarantees its authenticity and safe storage.
He said that these digital depositories will keep the academic awards in digital format and ensure data integrity. Only the concerned student is authorized to access academic awards in the digital mode, which could be DMC, Diploma Certificate through the NAD online.
He said that the students of 182 Polytechnics affiliated with HSBTE and enrolled in the first year Diploma programmes would be covered initially. He said that the data of all other students will be gradually synchronized with the National Academic Depository.
To log-in for accessing an academic award, a student should have either the Aadhar number as the user identity or the NAD id, he added.
The spokesperson of the Board said that the creation of a digital database will negate the possibility of fake, forged certificates and recruiters or verifying agencies who want to get the credentials of applicants verified from the Board will be able to utilize NAD services for verification.