MU commences process of digitising manual ledgers

Mangaluru: The process of digitising manual ledgers in Mangalore University has begun in right earnest. Ledgers contain marks of students who passed out in the first 27 years since the university was set up in 1980. All these ledgers are now being scanned, and their images are being stored in digital format, V Ravindrachary, registrar (evaluation), said. The ledgers include those of medical, dental, engineering and law colleges affiliated to the university.
Mangalore University was carved out of University of Mysore in 1980, and became an independent university. Subsequently, medical and dental colleges were brought under the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS), Bengaluru, engineering colleges under the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, and the law colleges gradually came under the administration of Karnataka State Law University, Hubballi.
Notwithstanding the setting up of RGUHS, VTU and KSLU, Mangalore University has the onerous task of scanning ledgers having records of marks of the medical, dental, engineering and law graduates as well. The process of scanning and digitising ledgers of engineering students has almost been completed, Ravindrachary said. This will help in speedy verification of marks in computers which prospective employers and other agencies seek, he said.
Verification of students can be done in little time by searching in ledgers using key words such as name of student, course, registration number and name of college. “We have sought help of state government undertaking, Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation Ltd, to undertake this digitisation,” he said, adding with university digitising evaluation records from 2008, there is no need to scan any records from that year onwards.
A M Khan, registrar (administration), said the university in the next step towards digitisation, will digitise personal details of students who have studied in the university from 1980 to 2007. The university has entered into an agreement with National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), where this digital database can be shared on the National Academic Depository of MHRD. It will also allow students to gain access to their academic records online.