Recently Hon’ble President of India has launched National Academic Depository (NAD) in National Convention on Digital Initiatives for Higher Education held on July 9, 2017 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. National Academic Depository (NAD) is an online store house of academic awards(Degrees, Diplomas, Mark Sheets etc.). in digital format available to the students 24×7 online mode.
The vision of National Academic Depository (NAD) is born out of an initiative to provide an online store house of all academic awards. National Academic Depository (NAD) is a 24X7 online store house of all academic awards viz.certificates, diplomas, degrees, mark-sheets etc. duly digitised and lodged by academic institutions / boards / 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.
Digi Locker is a flagship initiative of Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) under Digital India programme. Digi Locker aims at ‘Digital Empowerment’ of citizen by providing access to authentic digital documents to citizen’s digital document wallet. The issued documents in Digi Locker 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 notified on February 8, 2017 vide G.S.R. 711(E).
In order to benefit from this initiative, it is important that all students know about and register on the Digilocker system. Therefore, to facilitate students to understand and join NAD, the process of registration on NAD is very simple please Visit https://nad.digitallocker.gov.in/
For more information, visit www.nad.gov.in
In view of the same a NAD cell is established in the institute as follows:-
Mr.Surendra Nayak Nodal Officer