CBSE STUDENTS CAN ACCESS DOCUS ONLINE
From now, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) students can find their marksheets, pass and migration certificates at the click of a button. The CBSE launched its digital academic repository, Parinam Manjusha, last week. It can be used by employers and educational institutions students to verify academic records and by students to access their certificates.
The repository has been developed by the board in collaboration with NEGD (Digilocker) and is available at https:// cbse.digitallocker.gov.in
Users need to register on the website and can check the applicants’ certificates after paying the verification fee online. The documents will be sent to the employer through mail and the applicant will be notified.
“It will save students the hassle of acquiring certificates through offices,” said Deepshikha Srivastava, principal, Rajhans Vidyalaya, Andheri.
At a time when hundreds of graduating Iitians are preparing themselves to sit through a series of interviews during the upcoming placement season, Bikram Kumar Sinha is an exception. A final-year Mtech student at the Indian Institute of Technology-bombay (IIT-B), Sinha is one of the six students who have been awarded two years to work on their start-ups and try their luck at the 2018-19 placement season, if their ventures fail to produce desired results.
The offer comes as part of the Deferral Placement Programme (DPP) introduced by the IIT-B in 2012. Under this programme, students who want to start their ownfirmsorworkinthesocial sector, by moving away from the safety net of a regular campus placement, have a cushion to break their fall.
The students, who have been awarded deferrals this year, can come back after two years and be part of the campus placements.
“Some of us have been working on setting up an e-commerce platform with a pan-india presence where people can buy plants online. While the rest of the team has opted for placements this year, I chose to work on the start-up and see how far I can take it,” said Sinha.
While Sinha has been working on his start-up, plantley.com for the past seven months, he now plans to find suitable investors for the project and eventually push it towards self-sustenance. “The idea is to contribute 1.5% of the profits to the Green India Project,” he added.