APPAR initiative

• Union Minister of Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship recently attended the National Conference on APAAR: One Nation One Student ID Card.
• Around 25 crore APAAR IDs have already been created till date.

ABOUT APAAR

• The aim of APAAR is to establish a unified student identity system called ‘One Nation, One Student ID’.
• The Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry initiative aims to provide a unique and permanent 12-digit ID to every student.
• The APAAR ID connects a student’s academic bank of credits (ABC), which stores all of his or her academic learnings, certificates, credentials, formal or informal credits earned from various sources, to granular levels of credits, such as skilling credits, sports, or social work, which are digitally verified by the agency awarding the credits.
• It is being introduced in line with the National Education Policy (NEP) of 2020 and the National Credit and Qualifications Framework (NCrF).
• APAAR helps in tracking the vast pool of 260 million students in the country.