Last month, the Indian state of Maharashtra’s State Board of Skill Development announced it partnered with LegitDoc, an Indian blockchain startup, to issue educational certificates.
India is particularly susceptible to document forgery because of its dependence on paper-based documentation. These are easy to duplicate and carry the risk of being lost or spoiled.
Paper documents also often take several weeks to authenticate since manual verification can only be carried out by the document issuer. Once issued, the storage and filing of paper documents also create additional costs and inefficiencies.
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