JNU Digitises 8,482 Degree And Diploma Certificates, Available Now In National Academic Depository

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has claimed to have digitised 8,482 degree certificates of BA, MA, M.Phil and PhD students, reports The Times of India.

The digitisation has been reportedly done across its Schools and Special Centres awarded from 2014 onwards. All these documents are also uploaded in the National Academic Depository (NAD).

The university had started the process of digitisation in May 2018, according to the TOI report. The NAD is an initiative of the Central government to create an online repository of all academic records and certificates.

The new degree certificates in the NAD depository have photographs and other relevant details of students in it. The NAD framework is also reported to ensure the privacy of data and provides a 24x7 digital online system for lodging, retrieval, authentication and verification of academic awards in digital format for students and other NAD users. It also guarantees the authenticity of the academic award and ensures its safe storage.

"JNU has been prompt in introducing this revolutionary move and started the process of digitisation in May 2018. It is significant that from the year 2014 onwards, a total of 8,482 diplomas, degrees and certificates of BA, MA, M.Phil and PhD students across all Schools and Special Centres have been uploaded by JNU in the NAD depository," TOI quoted a press release from JNU as saying.