Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a new portal with aims to help students in getting their duplicate documents from home. The name of this portal is Duplicate Academic Document System aka DADS. Through this portal, it will become easier for students to get their marksheet or a transfer certificate in a short time.
Prior to this, if a student lost any of his important documents issued by the CBSE, it would require them to approach regional CBSE offices in personnel and to apply on a prescribed form. After that, they will require to deposit fees in the banks or alternately send forms and bank drafts by post. To facilitate students with the ease of getting documents without going through such a long process, CBSE introduced this new-age solution called ‘DADS’.
Duplicate Academic Document System - DADS will help a student to claim their lost document online through simple steps. Students will have to log on to the website www.cbse.nic.in and apply on the link https://cbseit.in/cbse/web/dads/home.aspx for the procedure and options to claim the duplicate copy of lost document.
The CBSE has also issued an official statement related to this which reads, "Looking at the prevailing COVID conditions and predicaments of students, IT Department has come up with a safe, quick and viable solution through a recently developed in-house portal named DADS — Duplicate Academic Document System. The facility will obviate the human contact and physical presence of the students required so far and cut short the travel, time, and energy spent by students and parents who can now obtain duplicate marksheets, passing certificate, migration certificate through this online portal".
On the receipt of applications, regional offices will print academic documents and dispatch them through speed post. However, the students will get the option to choose between digital copy as well as a printed copy of the academic document.