{"id":37902,"date":"2023-10-27T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T22:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=37902"},"modified":"2025-04-23T02:45:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T21:15:58","slug":"apaar-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/apaar-id\/","title":{"rendered":"APAAR ID &#8211; One Nation, One Student ID Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is APAAR ID?<\/li>\n<li>What is the need for APAAR ID?<\/li>\n<li>Working of APAAR ID<\/li>\n<li>What do students have to do to get their single ID created?<\/li>\n<li>Concerns surrounding APAAR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Recently, several state governments requested schools to seek parental consent for the creation of a new student identity card.<\/li>\n<li>The new ID card, known as the <u>Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry- APAAR<\/u>, is part of the \u2018One nation, One Student ID\u2019 initiative of the Union government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is APPAR ID?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is envisioned as a special ID system for all students in India, starting from childhood.<\/li>\n<li>Under the initiative, each student would get a lifelong APAAR ID, making it easy for the learners, schools, and governments to <u>track academic progress from pre-primary education to higher education<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>APAAR would also serve as a gateway to Digilocker.\n<ul>\n<li>Digilocker, a digital system where students can store their important documents and achievements, such as exam results and report cards, digitally, making it easier to access and use them in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Need<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The goal behind introducing APAAR is to <u>make education hassle-free and reduce the need for students to carry physical documents<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative was launched as part of the National Education Policy 2020 by the Education Ministry.<\/li>\n<li>The vision is to create a positive change, <u>allowing state governments to track literacy rates, dropout rates, and helping them make improvements<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>APAAR also aims to reduce fraud and duplicate educational certificates by providing a single, trusted reference for educational institutions.\n<ul>\n<li>Only first party sources that issue certificates will be allowed to deposit credits into the system, ensuring authenticity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Working of APAAR ID<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Every individual will have a unique APAAR ID, which will be linked to the Academic Bank Credit (ABC).\n<ul>\n<li>ABC is a digital storehouse that contains information of the credits earned by students throughout their learning journey.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>With the APAAR ID, students would be able to store all their certificates and credits, <u>whether they come from formal education or informal learning.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>When a student completes a course or achieves something, it is <u>digitally certified and securely stored in his\/her account by authorised institutions.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>If the student changes schools, whether within the state or to another state, all related data in the ABC gets transferred to the new school just by sharing the APAAR ID.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What do students have to do to get their single ID created?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>To sign up for APAAR, students will have to provide basic information such as name, age, date of birth, gender, and a photograph.<\/li>\n<li>This information will be verified using their Aadhar number.<\/li>\n<li>Students will need to sign a consent form, and they can <u>choose to either accept or decline sharing their Aadhar number and demographic information with the Ministry of Education for creating the APAAR ID.<\/u><\/li>\n<li>For minors, parents will have to sign the consent form, allowing the Ministry to use the student\u2019s Aadhar number for authentication with UIDAI.<\/li>\n<li><u>Registration for creating APAAR ID is voluntary, not mandatory<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Concerns surrounding APAAR<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sharing of Aadhar details and issue around security\n<ul>\n<li>Parents and students worry that their personal information could be leaked to outside parties.<\/li>\n<li>The government, however, says that the information shared by students will be kept confidential and will not be shared with any third party except for entities engaged in educational activities.<\/li>\n<li>These entities include the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) database, scholarships, maintenance academic records, educational institutions and recruitment agencies.\n<ul>\n<li>UDISE+ database is the government\u2019s catalogue that contains data related to schools, teachers and students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Processing of information\n<ul>\n<li>At any given time, students have the option to <u>stop sharing their information with the mentioned parties, and their data processing will be halted<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>However, any personal data already processed will remain unaffected if consent is withdrawn.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Burden on teaching faculties\n<ul>\n<li>School authorities have raised the issue of already pending Aadhaar verification of students, which is kept optional.<\/li>\n<li>The addition of the APAAR registry can increase the administrative burden on the teaching faculty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q)1\u00a0What is Unified District Information System for Education Plus?<\/h3>\n<p>The Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) is a management information system that collects data from schools in real-time. It was developed by the Department of School Education and Literacy in 2018-19.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2)\u00a0What is National Education Policy 2020?<\/h3>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/quest-upsc-notes\/national-education-policy-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>National Education Policy 2020<\/u><\/a> (NEP 2020) is a policy that aims to transform the Indian education system. The policy is based on five guiding pillars: Access, Equity, Quality, Affordability, Accountability.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/one-nation-one-student-id-apaar-explained-9000086\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>What is the \u2018One nation, One Student ID\u2019 initiative of the Union govt?<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/jobs-career\/education-one-nationone-student-id-how-it-is-supposed-bring-in-educational-efficiencynbsp-3287660\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Financial Express<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/india-news\/india-what-is-apaar-govt-plans-one-nation-one-student-id-for-school-students-details-647940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>WION<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APAAR aims to make education hassle-free and reduce the need for students to carry physical documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}