The project e-Sanad aims at providing a centralized platform for contactless, faceless, cashless and paperless document verification/attestation/apostille service for Indian citizens, foreigners who have obtained documents from document issuing authorities (DIAs) in India.These include all type of documents i.e personal, educational and commercial. The project is being implemented in phased manner and proposed to extend the service to Indians residing abroad. The system ensures that the foreign employers/other verification agencies get digitally verified genuine documents.
The primary requirement for the attestation/apostille through e-Sanad is the availability of the document in digital depository. The project was launched on 24th May 2017with CBSE documents depository (documents from year 2014 onwards), since then it has been adopted by various document issuing authorities (DIAs) including National Academic Depository (NAD). The NAD project being implemented by (MHRD) has been integrated with e-sanadfor enhancing the digital depository of the documents. The verification/attestation of the documents issued by the document issuing authorities (DIAs) integrated with NAD would be done online. The Physical copy of CBSE documents from year 2014 onwards would not be accepted for attestation / apostille.
The project has been developed in highly configurable mode for integration with various other depositories of the Document Issuing Authorities, Digi Locker, depositories of States/UTs. The ministry is under discussion with other Document Issuing Authority (DIAs) under State Government for integration in phased manner.The pre-requisite for integration is the availability of the digital depository of the documents with the concerned Document Issuing Authority (DIAs) such as CBSE and NAD. This service would be extended to other DIAs as per their readiness for providing the digital depository of documents issued by them.
The documents will be attested/apostilled by the Ministry of External Affairs only after the verification by the concerned DIA and the digital copy of the same will be send to applicant by speed post. The documents where digital depository is not available, would continue to be attested/apostilled as being done previously, the procedure for the same is explained at: http://mea.gov.in/apostille.htm.
