NAD Cell, NERIST

About National Academic Depository (NAD)

NADNational Academic Depository (NAD) is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resources Development, Govt. of India (MHRD) to facilitate digital itssuance, storage, access and verification of Academic Awards issued by Academic Institutions. NAD is a Unique, Innovative and Progressive initiative under “Digital India” theme towards achieving Digital enablement of the Education Records.

NAD aspires to make the vision of Digital Academic Certificates for every Indian a reality. This touches the lives of Indian youth and empowers them with Digital, Online, Trusted, Verifiable Certificates which are accessible in a secure manner at all times. NAD promises to do away with difficulties / inefficiencies of collecting, maintaining, and presenting physical paper certificates.

NAD is a complete system for Issuing Online Certificates to Well Identified and Registered Students. NAD integrates directly with Boards / Universities who issue Certificates and hence ensures Authenticity of Certificate Records.

NAD will develop an online portfolio of all education certificates for every Citizen across Academic Institutions (Universities / Boards / Assessment Bodies) which can be submitted easily for employment, higher education, and loan and is easily trusted and verified.

NAD will be an active online place for Students, Academic Institutions and Verification Users. NAD brings in deterrence factor for people who wish to think that paper certificates can be easily forged / created and as verification processes are costly and inefficient they can use the arbitrage. By doing so it also brings trust and credibility to genuine certificate holders and makes their certificates trusted and easily accepted.

People of NAD Cell, NERIST

	Name	Designation	Contact
	Dr. Sarsing Gao	Nodal Officer, NAD Cell	E-mail:sg [AT] nerist(dot)ac(dot)in Phone(EPABX/Office):2257401 - 411 Ext. 7005 Mobile: +91-9402920210
	Dr. Arnab Bandyopadhyay	Admin, NAD Cell	E-mail: arnabbandyo[AT]yahoo(dot)co(dot)in/ gmail(dot)com/ nerist(dot)ac(dot)in Phone: +91 (0)360 2257401-08 Extns. 6102 (O), 6587 (R); +91 (0)8974068190 (M)