Sambalpur University to go complete digital from January next year

Sambalpur University has already spent Rs 1 crore for procurement of computers, high-end scanners and other peripherals for the project. This apart, Rs 10 lakh has been paid to CMGI initially for scanning the documents.

Sambalpur University will go paperless from January by switching over to the digital mode for most of its administrative and academic work including the issuance of certificates. While speaking on the same, Sanjiv Mittal, Sambalpur University, Vice-Chancellor said, “From January, the administrative office of the university will be transformed into an e-office and we will also start issuing degree certificates online. With digitization, there will be no need to move files physically as everything will be done online through computers. This will save time and efforts of the staff.”

The Centre for Modernising Government Initiative (CMGI) has been entrusted with the task of executing the project. At present, the scanning of documents to create the digital archive is underway, the New Indian Express reported. The university has also procured computers which will be issued to different sections shortly. All the scanned documents will be uploaded to the computers.

As per the reports, the varsity has already spent Rs 1 crore for procurement of computers, high-end scanners and other peripherals for the project. This apart, Rs 10 lakh has been paid to CMGI initially for scanning the documents. Once the document digitization work is completed, the rest amount will be paid. After implementation of the project, students of 222 colleges affiliated with Sambalpur University in 10 districts of western Odisha will be able to avail their provisional certificates, mark sheets and other services without any hassles. 

To access the documents online, students will be given user ID and a password. Their request will be forwarded to the university through their respective colleges and the verification will also be conducted online. Subsequently, they can download their documents.

Earlier, the University had started giving migration certificated online.  “We have to switch over to the online mode by next month as the government has given us the mandate to launch the project by January 1. The university has already created a National Academic Depository (NAD) of certificates and mark sheets of students who have taken admission from 2015 onwards. The online repository is a permanent record of documents which will serve a number of verification and authentication purposes in future,” the Vice-Chancellor said.

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