ABC and APAAR

Academic Bank of Credits and APAAR ID

ABC stores students' academic credits; APAAR gives each student a lifelong academic ID linked to ABC and DigiLocker.

Issuing authority
Ministry of Education, with UGC (Academic Bank of Credits) and the National Academic Depository on DigiLocker.
Legal instrument
UGC (Establishment and Operation of Academic Bank of Credits in Higher Education) Regulations, 2021, and the Ministry of Education's APAAR (Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry) framework under NEP 2020. Later ABC amendments and APAAR guidelines are not cited on this page.
Last reviewed
Not yet reviewed for publication

Planned coverage

  • What ABC and APAAR are, how they relate to each other, to DigiLocker and to the National Academic Depository.
  • Institution registration, credit upload and the duties of the institution's ABC nodal officer.
  • Creating APAAR IDs for students, including parental consent for students under 18 and the overlap with the DPDP Act.
  • Multiple entry and exit, credit transfer and how credits should map to your programme structure.
  • How Bit2Bit syncs credits and awards from the student record to ABC, APAAR and DigiLocker automatically.

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