Overview
- The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad told schools to enter APAAR (Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry) IDs for Classes 9–12 during ongoing advance registration and exam form submissions, with principals asked to target full coverage before registration deadlines.
- Officials said the APAAR is a permanent 12‑digit student identity that links a pupil’s marksheets, transfer certificates and report cards to a single digital account accessible via DigiLocker.
- Board secretary Bhagwati Singh stressed that providing an APAAR ID is not mandatory now and that ID creation requires parental consent, so students will not be barred from registration or exams if they do not have one.
- The board asked schools to help parents generate IDs and flagged a separate tightening of verification for date‑of‑birth correction requests, listing hospital, ANM, Anganwadi, village registers or a parent affidavit as acceptable proof when a birth certificate is missing.
- If widely adopted, the registry could simplify proof for scholarships and welfare schemes and reduce lost or damaged physical documents, but it will also require schools to manage ID creation and families to have basic digital access for the system to work.