CBSE Bags the Digital India Award 2022

CBSE Bags the Digital India Award 2022

Digital India Awards have been instituted under the ambit of National Portal of India, a mission mode project of MeitY, The Award acknowledges exemplary and innovative digital solutions by government entities across India. The Honourable President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, recently conferred the Digital India Award 2022 - Gold to CBSE in the Data Sharing and Use for Socio Economic Development Category. CBSE’s pioneering IT initiative “Digital Academic Repository - Parinam Manjusha was selected for Gold category.

Dr Antriksh Johri, Director (IT & Projects) alongwith Shri Kamal Kumar Khandelwal, JS(IT) received this prestigious award in the august presence of the Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, Railways & Communications Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Secretary, MeitY, Shri Alkesh Kumar Sharma and Shri Rajesh Gera DG, NIC. Parinam Manjusha, is first of its kind online repository as single source of result data developed and implemented by IT Department, CBSE and integrated with NeGD’s Digi Locker. Result data of Board examinees of the last twenty-two years (2001-2022) & CTET examinees of five years (2018-2022) is available for download of academic documents by students and just-in-time verification by Admissions & Counselling bodies, Higher Education Institutions, and Employers. There are further plans to upload legacy results from 1975 onwards in this repository. This facility eliminates the hardship of students in need of original documents which takes longer in physical access mode. Alongside the result declaration, digital academic documents like Marks Sheets / Passing Certificates, Migration Certificate & Skill Certificates are immediately made available for download. This is a credential based access which is communicated to examinees in advance. CTET exam mark sheet and passing certificates, scholarship and registration cards of class IX and XI are also available for real time generation and download through this repository. All the documents are digitally signed and have PKI based QR code for authentication. API based bulk verification is also available for easy and quick facilitation of Admissions & Counselling bodies, Higher Education Institutions and Employers.

The CBSE innovative digital solutions also provide Face Matching technology assisted access to foreign students. Parinam Manjusha has also been integrated with e-Sanad of MEA for e-Apostle of digital documents for students going abroad for higher studies or employment. This is 2nd Digital India Gold award for CBSE after 2018 given in recognition for ‘Exemplary Online Services’.