APAAR ensures accountability and transparency in education by tracking student progress and streamlining academic records. It enhances efficiency, removes duplicity, minimizes fraud, and includes co-curricular achievements for holistic student development. With multiple use cases, APAAR facilitates following;

1. Facilitate student mobility
2. Enhance academic flexibility
3. Empower students to choose their learning paths of their choice
4. Acknowledge and validate learning achievements
5. Since no additional certificates are required to be provided except sharing APAAR id where all credentials are stored, there is no fear of losing hard copy certificates and hence useful for all type of use cases such as transfer from one school to the other, entrance examination, admission, job application, skilling, upskilling etc

APAAR ID - a unique 12-digit code will help students to digitally store, manage, and access all their academic credits, including Score card, marksheets, gradesheet, degrees, diplomas, certificates & co-curricular accomplishments. This ID functions as a permanent digital identity for the student in the education ecosystem.

Students need to follow these steps:

1. Verification: Visit the school to verify demographic details
2. Parental Consent: Obtain parental consent if the student is a minor
3. Authentication: Authenticate identity through the school
4. ID Creation: Upon successful verification, the APAAR ID is created and added to DigiLocker for secure online access

Before generating an APAAR ID, the following prerequisites must be considered:

1. The name of student as per student records in UDISE+ must match with the name of the student as per Aadhaar
2. PEN of student is mandatory for generation of APAAR ID

The following student details are mandatory for APAAR ID creation:

1. UDISE+ Unique Student Identifier (PEN), Student Name, Date of Birth (DOB), Gender, Mobile Number, Mother's Name, Father's Name, Name as per Aadhaar, Aadhaar Number

As soon as APAAR ID is generated, it is pushed into student's DigiLocker Account. Student can find virtual APAAR ID Card in Issued document section of DigiLocker. The status of APAAR ID generation can also be checked in the UDISE+ Portal under the APAAR Module, which displays a list of students along with their APAAR ID statuses. Students may request their school authority to check the status of their APAAR ID creation.