DGT proposes to issue Digital ‘E-Credentials/E-Certificates’

Directorate General of Training (DGT), Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship proposes to issue digital ‘e-Credentials / e-Certificates’ which are freely portable for candidates and easily verifiable at scale by employers and job matching platforms but continue to allow print and other visual forms for human consumption.

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DGT would enable candidates to verifiably state their skill levels with a high degree of trust in authenticity to aggregators, matchers, and employers. Now in the DGT ecosystem, all the certificates are ‘e-Certificates’, digitally signed. e-Credentials are an electronic scheme-based standard for describing credentials data in a machine-readable format along with its printable human-friendly version to make credential exchange between digital agents open and reliable.