CBSE urges UGC to direct colleges to accept digital marksheets, certificates for admission

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has urged the University Grants Commission (UGC) to direct all universities and colleges to accept digital copies of the Class-12 migration certificates as well as the marksheets-cum-passing certificates during admission process.

All these documents are available on DigiLocker platform for students to access. The Board has stated that the documents are legally valid. The clarification from CBSE came after some universities asked their students to submit a paper-printed copy of the migration certificate.

"It has come to the notice that certain universities are asking the students to submit the paper-printed copy of the migration certificate. Though the CBSE is supplying the printed copy to the students shortly, however, it is informed that documents such as marksheet-cum-passing certificate and migration certificate available in DigiLocker with digital signature are also legally valid and should be accepted by all higher education institutions," PTI quoted CBSE Examination Controller Sanyam Bhardwaj as saying.


The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the Class-12 results on July 22.

"Immediately after the declaration of the results, the marksheet-cum-passing certificates and migration certificates of students were made available in their DigiLocker. Both the documents available in DigiLocker are digitally signed by the controller of examinations," he added.

DigiLocker is an Indian digitisation online service provided by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the Centre's Digital India initiative.

(With inputs from PTI)