School Students to Get a New ID Called Apaar. Activists Are Worried
Johanna Deeksha | 15 October 2024 | Scroll.in
In September 2024, the government of Assam announced that it was proceeding with the implementation of an online registry for school students, known as the Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry.
The registry, also known as Apaar, was introduced by the Union government as an extension of a recommendation in the National Education Policy 2020 that the government set up an online “academic bank” to store information about credits that students earned during their higher studies…