Just one click on a student's name and you will see their detailed academic record and complete information on your screen, thanks to a 'digital locker' system to be introduced by the Admission Regulating Authority (ARA). Applicable for all professional courses such as engineering, medicine, architecture, pharmacy and nursing, this will soon be a reality. A new portal titled 'safalata.org' is ready to be launched, which saves the details of every student, starting from their Std X mark sheet to the latest; caste certificate, if admission is done on any quota; and other supporting documents, including identity card. Other than this collated form of data, a search engine will function simultaneously.

The ARA has recently had a pilot run of the process, wherein such details were recorded in digital format for admissions done in the academic year 2018-19. A total of 3,424 institutes have registered on the system and around 25 lakh documents have been uploaded. A total of 2,17,000 students' verification of documents was done online for the first time with simple clicks from the central office of ARA last week. The portal is going to be launched officially on January 31 and will be an integral part of all admissions for the academic year 2019-20 and going forward.