NATIONAL ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY | BENIFIT FOR STUDENTS

The National Academic Depository (NAD) is a digital database of academic awards provided by the Government of  India. NAD is an inter-operable system for storage, retrieval, authentication and verification of academic awards.

NAD allows the logging of academic awards. In addition to ensuring the authenticity integrity, and confidentiality of the database, NAD can act as a deterrent to fake and forged paper certificates, reduce administrative efforts, and eliminate the need for institutions to preserve physical records.

Academic institutions are held responsible for the authenticity of NAD data. Requests for access to academic awards for potential employers require the consent of the recipient.
BENEFITS OF NATIONAL DEPOSITORY 

1. Digital (non-physical) academic awards allow for easy access and safeguard against losing of physical copies
2. Enabling verification of academic awards of various educational institutions at a is taking place
3. Reducing the time and cost involved in an audit
4. Reducing the circulation of fake certificates
5. Easy procedure for obtaining duplicate and authenticated copy of certificates through a network of NAD agents
6. Facility to register certificate holder with NAD and map certificates to an individual awarde 

They have some overlapping features but the basic difference is -

Government associatied 

NAD has been developed under HRD ministry specifically for Academic certificates and their verification whereas you can save Many other documents like PAN card, property papers, Driving license and academic certificates also in Digilocker.

Both of them need ADHAAR verification.

I hope you like are post and gain some knowledge about it NATIONAL ACADEMIC DEPOSITORY | BENIFIT FOR STUDENT'S
Please share to your needy students