Microchips in Gujarat varsity marksheets (Khaleej Times Online)
The Gujarat University will insert microchips in all its marksheets to be issued to students next year.
The chips will contain data about the student's name, scores, percentage, year of passing as in regular marksheets which can be crosschecked online to ascertain the genuineness of the document.
This is done to fight the rise of bogus certificates but I don't think it will help. For one, everyone else will need a microchip reader to ascertain the document's authenticity. And two, what if bogus data is programmed into the microchip? People programming these chips are the weak link and this does nothing to address that problem.
This is just a "show" solution - it won't solve the problem but will make it appear that the Univerity is serious about it.
Posted by Harshal at September 17, 2004 10:00 AMRather than really helping out at this stage, I think it might make the matters more worse. Knowing the competiveness of the people there, this looks like increase in frustration for the people if not done really in a right way.
Posted by: Tejas Patel on September 20, 2004 01:58 AM