National Academic Depository (NAD) is an initiative of Government of India, facilitated by MHRD. NAD is a national database set up to hold academic awards issued by Academic Institutions (AI) in an electronic form.
Salient Features of NAD:
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Operate in fully online mode
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Allow lodging of academic awards in digital format, maintaining the integrity of access to the database and of the awards lodged in the database
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Allow Students to retrieve their lodged academic awards at any time
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Allow Employers and other persons (with prior approval of the concerned Student) to verify the authenticity of any academic award.
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Maintain the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the databases
NAD Benefits:
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Institutional intervention to strengthen Academic Award notification and dissemination.
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Enhances efficiency in providing services to NAD Stakeholders.
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Attempts to eliminate undesirable practices such as corruption, manipulation of records, etc. and brings in transparency.
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Eliminates fake/forged certificates.
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Helps in Policy formulation with accurate MIS/Analytics.