Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

According to the RTI Activist Anil Galgali, Over 900,000 degrees offered by the University of Mumbai in various disciplines were deposited to the National Academic Depository, which made all those degrees online available for the students. He added that this step would help to prevent fake degrees or certificates issued by fraudulent educational institutions.

During the recent inquiry, Mr. Galgali informed that these degrees have already been deposited to NAD. Replying to that university’s senior systems programmer informed that the process of depositing degrees to NAD started in February 2018 and for the period of five years from 2014-18, over 8,99,060 degrees from various disciplines were uploaded on NAD.

While the maximum number of degrees which was 193,398 degrees, were awarded in 2014, the lowest number of degrees, which was 189,538 degrees, were given in 2018.

Out of the total degrees, the Commerce Department allowed 3,98,650 degrees followed by Arts stream at 150,680, .said Mr Galgali.

The figure for Technology degrees was 129,603, for Science 111,625, Management 76,851 and Law 31,652.
“This is indeed a commendable initiative of the government and helps curb the use of fake educational certificates or degrees and prevents the lengthy process of verification as in the past both for the students, educational institutions and other stakeholders,” Mr. Galgali said.

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