The Pharmacy Council of India on 14th September 2022, has directed all institutions/universities/boards/state pharmacy councils to register and upload their 10-years academic certificate data (degree, mark sheet, admit card, score card etc) through Digi-Locker-NAD on priority basis.
The government of India has assigned the National Academic Depository (NAD) implantation via DigiLocker to facilitate students to get authentic educational documents/certificate in digital format directly from their original issuers. The digital copy available in the digilocker will be treated at par with the original physical documents as per rule 9A of the information technology (preservation & retention by intermediary providing Digilocker facilities) rules, 2016.
Digilockers is one of the key building blocks under India stack comprising of Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker and eConsent Framework. Digilocker is not only a vault for documents that citizens can access but also provides for consent based verification for third parties.
