The CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) has announced ‘Facial Recognition System’ for opening digital documents for the students of 10th and 12th. According to press statement realized by the CBSE, “This system will match human face from a digital image that has already been stored in the database. The computer and the human interrelate to map facial features of the students who are willing to access their digital documents.” This application is now available on ‘Parniaam Manjusha’ and Digi Locker at https://digilocker.gov.in/cbse-certificate.html for all 2020 records.

A live image of the student will be matched with the photograph on the CBSE admit card, and once successful the face is been recognized by the system, the certificates will be sent through Email to the student, says the CBSE board. The board has already updated the system with 12 crores digital academic documents in Digi locker through which the students can get access to their Mark sheets, Migration Certificates and other important documents. This provision of Face Matching will enormously help the foreign students and those who are unable to open Digi locker account for any reason such as Adhaar Card or wrong mobile numbers.