National Academic Depository (NAD) Context: The National Academic Depository (NAD) is gaining significance as India moves towards a secure, paperless, and interoperable system for managing academic records. About NAD The National Academic Depository (NAD) is a digital system for storing, issuing, verifying, and authenticating academic documents such as degrees, diplomas, certificates, mark sheets, and assessment reports. Need: It serves as an alternative to paper-based records, thereby mitigating risks such as loss, damage, forgery, and delays in verification. Objective: To provide students and certificate holders with lifelong access to secure and verified digital academic records. Platform: Since 2020, NAD has been operational through DigiLocker for the issuance, access, and sharing of academic credentials. Stakeholders: These include universities, school boards, higher education institutions, institutes of national importance, students, employers, banks, government agencies, and verification authorities. Integration: It is integrated with DigiLocker, APAAR, the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC), and e-Sanad for services such as secure document access, credit transfer, verification, authentication, and apostille services. Key Benefits of NAD Paperless System: Ensures secure and digital management of academic documents. Lifetime Access: Allows users to access and share their academic documents at any time. Rapid Verification: Accelerates admission, recruitment, and official verification processes. Prevents Fraud: Reduces fake certificates and document tampering through verified digital documents. Enhanced Transparency: Improves efficiency and transparency in academic document management. POSHAN tracker Background: 'Potion Tracker' has emerged as India's real-time nutrition monitoring platform; It is spread across all 28 states and 8 union territories of the country and has registered over 8.93 crore beneficiaries (as on May 2026). It has become a success story of 'Digital India' project by enabling real time nutrition monitoring, Aadhaar based beneficiary tracking and evidence based governance under 'Mission Potion 2.0'. About Poshan Tracker Poshan Tracker is a mobile-based digital application that supports…
