About National Academic Depository (NAD)
DigiLocker and NAD are initiatives of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), respectively. The concept of National Academic Depository (NAD) is born out of an initiative by MHRD to provide a 24×7 online depository to Academic institutions to store and publish their academic awards. The digital depository not only ensures easy access to and retrieval of an academic award but also validates and guarantees its authenticity and safe storage.
It aspires to make the vision of Digital Academic Awards for every Indian a reality.
Key Features of NAD via DigiLocker
Operates in fully online mode
- Allows Academic Institutions to lodge Academic Awards in digital format and maintains the integrity of the awards
- Allows Students to retrieve their lodged academic awards at any time
- Allows Employers and other persons (with consent of the concerned Student) to verify the authenticity of any Academic Award
- Maintains the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality
Benefits
Globally recognised and legally valid awards under the IT Act, 2000
- Secure Issuance of Digital Awards in students’ DigiLocker account
- Access to Millions of Digital awards from a single source of truth
- Reduces and Eliminates the circulation of fake certificates
- Consent-based Online and Reliable Verification process
- No risk of losing or spoiling of Academic awards
- Easily sharable & verifiable with anybody
DigiLocker
DigiLocker aims at promoting Paperless Governance by issuing authentic digital documents issued by various issuers to the citizens’ locker account. The issued documents in the DigiLocker system are deemed to be at par with original physical documents as per Rule 9A of the Information Technology (Preservation and Retention of Information by Intermediaries providing Digital Locker facilities) Rules, 2016.
Ecosystem
The DigiLocker ecosystem comprises three stakeholders, i.e. Academic Institutions, Students and Verifying Partners. DigiLocker is available on the web and a mobile app for students to access, view and share academic awards.
The Academic Institutions will issue digital Awards to DigiLocker through the National Academic Depository provided by DigiLocker.
The Institution issuing the document to the DigiLocker system is the custodian of these awards and manages the awards throughout their lifecycle. The Verifying Partners (Employers, Banks, VISA Consulates, Academic Institutions, etc.) can easily verify academic awards of the Students through the system by obtaining consent.
NAD Cell – IIM Ranchi
Asis Chakraborty
Nodal Officer – NAD Cell
Choudhury Ashadeep Das
Office Assistant- NAD Cell
choudhury.ashadeep@iimranchi.ac.in
In order to register on NAD-DigiLocker.
National Academic Depository (NAD)
In order to create the ABC ID.
