National Academic Depository Concept Video
Student Registration for NAD
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:
Operate in fully online mode
Allow lodging of academic awards in digital format, maintaining the integrity of access to the database and of the awards lodged in the database
Allow Students to retrieve their lodged academic awards at any time
Allow Employers and other persons (with prior approval of the concerned Student) to verify the authenticity of any academic award.
Maintain the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the databases
NAD Benefits:
Institutional intervention to strengthen Academic Award notification and dissemination.
Enhances efficiency in providing services to NAD Stakeholders.
Attempts to eliminate undesirable practices such as corruption, manipulation of records, etc. and brings in transparency.
Eliminates fake/forged certificates.
Helps in Policy formulation with accurate MIS/Analytics.