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Human resources and Development Ministry (HRD) in September 2011 had an idea of digitising all academic qualifications in the country to allow instant verification and prevent the forgery of academic documents.
The CBSE already conducted a pilot project for the National Academic Depository (NAD), and the results were encouraging. The NAD is a national database of academic qualifications created and maintained in an electronic format.
The CBSE is now looking for a vendor who has the capacity to manage big data of 3.8 million academic records annually. Apart from the CBSE, many major central universities such as Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIM), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), and several other government controlled educational institutes will participate in this initial stage of data digitalisation.
The bidding and awarding of tender is expected to be completed by mid of January.
The NAD will register academic institutions and provide them an access to their national database. After that, the institutions will be access to their database of all academic records they award to students. An individual will not be allowed to alter any academic qualification to ensure that forgery is denied. Employers will also be able to do a background check on candidates via an authentication process, which is expected to be helpful.
After the authentication of the records, the NAD will also provide a copy of academic qualification upon request to any person. A mapping of academic records will allow any individual to have all his or her certificates and degrees clubbed altogether in a single profile.
The NAD will integrate the new database with the government’s Unique Identification (UID) scheme. Under the UID project, a database and software to facilitate an online interaction and exchange of information with the Central Identities Data Repository will be developed by the NAD.
A one-time fee and per transaction fee will be charged as required by the NAD to generate revenue, and the revenue will be shared among the CBSE, academic institutions and the NAD for the services. The rate is to be decided by all stakeholders.
The NAD will be responsible to host and maintain the website that will be used by all stakeholders. The website will show the list of authorised boards in secondary education, as well as a list of degree and diploma awarding institutions in the country. A list of fraudulent universities would be shown on the website.
http://www.futuregov.asia/articles/2013/jan/07/india-digitise-national-database-academic/
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