The Regime of Maharashtra recently announced a partnership with Indian blockchain startup LegitDoc to implement a credentialing system powered by Ethereum to provide tamper-proof diploma certificates.

To counter the rise in document forgery, the Maharashtra State Board of Skill Evolution (MSBSD) opposes India's crypto ban narrative of using Ethereum-based public blockchains. In an sectional statement with Cointelegraph, LegitDoc CEO Neil Martis highlighted that while the certificates are verified using traditional transmission methods, MSBSD will showtime advocating just the digital verification method for all the transmission verification requests starting next year.

Showcasing interest from other local government government, Martis added:

"We have an active piece of work order from the Government of Karnataka (Department of It and Biotechnology). We are in talks with the Government of Telangana (school teaching department) and the Higher & Technical education section of Maharashtra to implement LegitDoc for their pupil community."

Mainstream institutions such equally the National Institute of Technology (Surathkal) and Ashoka Academy are in talks to implement a like solution for countering the ongoing forgery of documents, Martis said.

The partnership with LegitDoc places India among early on adopters to implement an e-governance system for education with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Malta and Singapore.

Citing blockchain's capability in curbing fraud related to document forgery, Anil Jadhao, chairman of MSBSD, pointed out:

"In the last 10 years, there has been a rampant increase in forgery of government-issued documents which have caused huge financial and reputational losses to the stakeholders involved."

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Post-obit up on MIT's implementation of the tamper-proof blockchain diploma, Cointelegraph reported Stuart Madnick's point of view that blockchain comes with its unique set of challenges.

Equally a word of caution, Madnick opined:

"The bottom line is that while the blockchain system represents advances in encryption and security, information technology is vulnerable in some of the aforementioned means as other technology, as well as having new vulnerabilities unique to blockchain. In fact, human actions or inactions still have significant consequences for blockchain security."