The National
Academic Depository ( NAD ) is a digital dtabase of academic awards
provided by the Governement of India under Digital India initiative.
It is an inter-operable system for strorage, retrieval,
authentication and verification of 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. National Academic Depository comprises of two
interoperable digital depositories viz. CDSL Ventures Limited (CVL)
and NSDL Database Management Limited (NDML). These digital
depositories have ensured hardware, network facilities and software
of prescribed quality for smooth and secured operationalisation of
NAD.
Features of NAD
- It operates in fully online mode.
- Allow lodging of Academic awards in a 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 person with prior approval of the concerned student to verify the authenticity of any academic award.
- Maintain the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of the database.
Stakeholders of NAD
- Students/other award holders.
- Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility assessment bodies.
- Verifying entities i.e. banks, employer companies (domestic and overseas), Government entities, academic institutions/universities/boards/eligibility assessment bodies (domestic and overseas) etc.
- Ministry of Human Resource Development/ University Grants Commission.
- Depositories.
Academic Institutions under NAD
- Central Universities.
- Central Higher Educational Institutions and institutions empowered by an Act of Parliament or State Legislature to grant degrees.
- Central Higher Educational Institutions awarding diplomas.
- State Universities and Deemed to be Universities approved for participating in NAD by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
- Private Universities approved by University Grants Commission.
- Institutions approved by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for participating in NAD.
- Central Board of Secondary Education, State Education Boards and other school boards.
- Eligibility test conducting bodies such as bodies listed by name by UGC and shall include University Grants Commission (UGC) for National Eligibility Test (NET) and CBSE for Teacher Eligibility Test (TET).
Academic awards to be covered under NAD
- Any certificate or degree or diploma including related mark sheets, transcript or evaluation reports or provisional certificates, as the case may be, granted by an Academic Institution.
- Certificate, degree, diploma for skill development issued by approved institutions.
- ll certifications by National Skill Qualification Framework (NSQF) aligned bodies which shall include all training courses/short term and long term certificate courses/any other courses as offered by institutions and as approved by the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for participating in NAD.
- Mark sheets, certificates issued by the school boards.
- Certificates issued by eligibility test conducting bodies.
Services by NAD
- Register Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility Assessment bodies.
- Register students based on Aadhaar / Unique NAD ID.
- Register verification users.
- Allow Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility Assessment
bodies to upload the academic awards issued by them.
- Allow Academic Institutions/Boards/Eligibility Assessment bodies to map/link the academic award to the NAD Accounts of Students concerned.
- Allow students to view the academic awards linked to their respective account.
- Allow students to download/print an authenticated copy of the academic award.
- Allow verifying entities to verify the authenticity of the
academic award (subject to prior student consent)
For more information visit official website of National Academic Depository at https://nad.gov.in
