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On Tuesday (March 26, 2025), the Orissa High Court issued a notice of a petition against the ID of the APAAR for school students.
In the petition against the government Odisha, the Ministry of Education of the Union (MOE) and Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), the unique identification office of India (Uidai) and SAI International School in Bhubaneswar in Bhubaneswar, Rohit Anand Das, parent of kindergarten.
Automated Academic Account (APAAR) is a new system to centralize and standardize students data as “the only source of truth”. While MOE stated on its website that the registration is voluntary, still pushing schools – and state governments – to ensure that the entry is “saturated”; In other words, each student must be written.
MOE, ODISHA and school department did not have an immediate answer when they reached out. In an interview with the Hinduist, he said that lawyer Mr. Das said that although he did not basically oppose the APAAR, “unless there is a clarity if the public is not educated about this system, it should not be done now.”
Parent and digital rights activists criticized the way the school and local administrators order the APAAR, although there is no law. In most cases, the Apaar may only be generated by a connection with AADHAAR students and digital rights activists claimed that the practical mandate of the APAAR could mean a reason for the 2017 Supreme Court judgment, which decided that Aadhaar could not be necessary for education.
The Odisha Government Circle to implement the Apaar “” He did not lead to the approval of the generation of the Apaar ID was voluntary – which is contrary to the (MOE) position on his website, “said the petition Mr. Das. The petition asks for a clear possibility of logging out in the forms of consent, which is handed over to parents by school authorities.
“It is that in the long run, these measures will effectively reduce access to education for students who do not have these IDs, or forcing children to give up their right to privacy to continue education,” the petition says.
“The APAAR ID lacks the appropriate privacy guarantees (student) and contradicts the international data protection standards,” says the petition. “The wide range of information required within the APAAR in combination with vague use emphasizes the potential of abuse and lack of privacy.”
Published – March 26, 2025 20:57
