The Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Government of India announced ‘One Nation, One ID’ – APAAR (Automated Permanent Academy Account Registry). The government notified all states and UTs to take consent from parents to issue new ID cards for students. APAAR ID is one of the major moves under the National Education Policy (NEP) which will create a digitally centarlised academic documentation of all students.
APAAR ID will be a lifelong academic record of students from Pre-primary to higher education. This academic ID will track your academic record from degrees, scholarships, qualifications to achievements like scholarships or any other academic rewards. This ID will be in addition to the 12-digit Aadhar ID that every student and citizen of India already has. As a result of this, all government and private schools will soon have their own unique identification number.
TG Sitharaman, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) expressed his thoughts and said, “ APAAR and National Curriculum Framework will be QR code for all the learners across the nation. For every skill they will start to learn, the scorecard will be updated in APAAR.”
APAAR – Enrolment, Challenges, and Benefits
The key objective of APAAR is to collect all the data about students at a single place, the entire academic record from pre-primary to higher education can be tapped at one stop. This will be a unique identifier for each student across the nation by a 12-digit unique number issued with APAAR similar to AADHAR.
There are some concern or challenge that is considered as a roadblock in the implementation of this unique identifier. Increased burden on the administration for the enrollment of APAAR and additionally, the recent data breaches with the Aadhar data is another rising issue, as APAAR will have the entire academic record of a student and may result in major data breaches if leaked.
The enrolment procedure will proceed after taking the consent of the student’s parents which can be withdrawn by them at any point of time. Though keeping the security of the data shared, it will be shared only with concerned government authorities.
How to register for APAAR online?
- You can register by logging in to the official APAAR portal – abc.gov.in and download the APAAR pdf.
- Registration can be completed by providing by filling in the details like Mobile number, Aadhar Card number, University/ School name.
- After registering for APAAR, you will be able to download ABC (Academic Bank of Credit) Card and use it as a unique identifier of your academic performance.
