Updated on: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Fake mark sheets and mark sheets forgery becomes a nuisance for the educational administrators. To avoid this, Ethiraj college for woman in Chennai has introduced printing of colour codes has introduced printing of colour codes in college mark sheets. Infact the college already has introduced 10 different security features in the mark sheets. Adding this feature, the college has decided to implement encryption system in the form of colour code to ensure safe and secure date.
It is reported, Japanese technology an IT company has incorporated the colour code concept in the mark sheets and course completion certificates. According to A Nirmala, the principal of Ethiraj college for woman that the colour is used as the basis of differentiation and the code compresses the data and safely store them. In a least possible space.
The implementing this concept, there will not be any need of cross verifications. This will be helpful for students in providing the validity of the contents in the certificate. The institution meant for higher studies to which the students apply for, may down load the decoder from the college web site and check the legitimacy of the marks by scanning the colour code. One of the students of the college felt, that this new mark sheet is innovative and student friendly. Dr. T. Senthamizh Selvi, former director of collegiate Education said, the colour code system is a new an innovation idea. This will certainly restrict scams. It will be a fool proof and transparent system. The duplication can be avoided by this process.