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India to use Ethereum blockchain to verify diploma certificates.
A new partnership with LegitDoc places India among early adopters to implement an e-governance system for higher education.
The Government of Maharashtra recently announced a partnership with Indian blockchain startup LegitDoc to implement a credentialing system powered by Ethereum (ETH) for providing tamper-proof diploma certificates.
To counter the rise in document forgery, the Maharashtra State Board of Skill Development (MSBSD) goes against India’s crypto ban narrative to use Ethereum-based public blockchain. In an exclusive statement with Cointelegraph, LegitDoc CEO Neil Martis highlighted that while the certificates are verified using the traditional manual methods, MSBSD will start advocating only the digital verification method for all the manual verification requests from the next year.
Showcasing interest from other local government authorities, Martis added: “We have an active work order from the Govt of Karnataka (Dept of Information Technology and Biotechnology). We are in talks with the Government of Telangana (school education dept) and Higher & Technical education dept of Maharashtra to implement LegitDoc for their student community.”
The partnership with LegitDoc places India among early adopters to implement an e-governance system for education with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Malta and Singapore.
Citing blockchain’s capability in curbing the frauds related to document forgery, Chairman of MSBSD Dr. Anil Jadhao pointed out:
“In the last 10 years, there has been a rampant increase in forgery of government-issued documents which have caused huge financial & reputational losses to the stakeholders involved.”
