Integration of e-SANAD portal and NAD

• n a bid to make education system in India more transparent, the integration of e-SANAD portal and NAD – National Academic Depository has been launched by the Union HRD Ministry.

What is e-SANAD?

• e-Sanad is a project aimed at online submission/verification of documents with an ultimate object to extend contact less, cashless, faceless and paperless document attestation service for apostille and normal attestation to applicants in India (to be extended to Indians residing abroad as well in a phased manner).
• It is designed and developed by NIC. Any type of document viz personal, educational or commercial can be authenticated/apostilled using e-Sanad.
• The document should be available in the digital repository for getting attestation/apostille through e-Sanad.
• The e-Sanad service will start with CBSE depository (documents of years 2014 & onwards) and verification of these CBSE documents would be done online.
• As regards its implementation/integration with States/UTs, the matter is being taken up with Telengana State as a pilot project and others will be included in a phased manner.
• Initially only those Document Issuing Authorities(DIAs), that have digital depository of their documents(such as CBSE), are taken on board.
• This service would be extended to other DIAs as and when they are capable to providing digital depository of documents issued by them.
• After verification of documents by the DIAs, the digital copy of the documents will be attested/apostilled by the Ministry of External Affairs and this copy will then be despatched to respective applicants by speed post

About National Academic Depository (NAD)

• 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.
• 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.
• The students and verification users are free to select either of the depositories to register on to NAD.
• Further, NAD provides a feature of portability i.e. the users of NAD may switch among the depositories if they are not satisfied with the services rendered. Since, the depositories are inter-operable, the data would be automatically synced among the depositories, the user can seamlessly operate the same account with the other depository.

By: Vishal