ABC v. APAAR v. DEB ID
Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (APAAR)
- unique and permanent 12 digit ID for each student
- initiative under One Nation One Student ID program
- part of NEP 2020 and National Credit and Qualifications Framework (NCrF)
- It provides students with a unique lifelong ID linked to the Academic Bank Credit (ABC) platform for secure storage and tracking of educational records.
- Integrated with Digilocker, APAAR ensures easy online access to academic documents and addresses issues of fake certificates.
- With privacy and consent measures, APAAR supports seamless transfer of academic records, promotes transparency, and aims to modernise the education system.
Academic Bank of Credits (ABC)
- Virtual store house which will keep records of academic credits secured by student.
- envisaged to facilitate the academic mobility of students with the freedom to study across the education Institutions in the country with an appropriate "credit transfer" mechanism from one programme to another.
- If the student changes schools, whether within the state or to another state, all their data in the ABC gets transferred to her/his new school just by sharing the APAAR ID.
- After accumulation of credits, a student can redeem these in order to get any academic degree. It is in lines of the National Academic Depository.
- ABC will not accept any credit course document directly from the students, and its institutes which will make the deposits in students’ accounts.
