DU to issue marksheets, degrees online from July 1

DU claims that it will be the first Indian university to go completely online in delivering these documents, procurement of which is a cumbersome process.

“From July 1, the university alumni will be able to apply for their degree certificates, marksheets, migration certificates, attestations and transcripts online. DU will also deliver the documents to the desired destinations such as educational institutions, employer and visa agencies,” an examination branch official said.

“The candidates will be required to submit the enrollment number, examination roll number, select the desired document from the list and make the payment online. While electronic copies of transcripts, verified degree and migration certificates will be delivered to desired destinations, the original degree and marksheets will have to be collected personally due to security reasons,” he added.

However, there will be an option to apply for the documents online and the delivery option will be made available to the students for the first time.

“For delivery to service employers, visa agencies and universities, once an applicant applies for a document, a password — in the form of a personal identification number —  will be generated, which will be shared with the respective agency or institution, which will then access the verified documents,” the official said.

The university is in the process of digitising marksheets of recent years. Undergraduate students, including those enrolled in the School of Open learning and Women’s Non-Collegiate Board, were all given online marksheets last year and postgraduate marksheets of nine departments were also available online.

The demand for the electronically generated educational document in Delhi University was being raised by students and teachers of the university. The students faced a lot of problem due to untimely delivery of hard copy of such documents.

By introducing the digital document delivery system, the university has made the process easy. “Students were facing a range of problems from the bureaucratic approach of the university administration, while collecting the educational documents to the delayed process of delivery,” a DU teacher said on the condition of anonymity.

The digitisation process has been expedited in DU. It is for the first time that the university has announced only online registration process for admission to undergraduate and post-graduate courses. The admission process for post-graduate courses has already been announced.