Can't force parents to create Apaar IDs for students: Supreme Court

New Delhi: In an order that would apply to 24 crore students, Supreme Court on Monday said parents cannot be mandated to create 'one student, one unique ID' for their children under Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (Apaar) scheme, even as it noted the benefits of the scheme.Appearing for three parents, whose children are studying in various grades in schools, senior advocate Indira Jaising said for creation of Apaar ID, schools are mandating the parents to provide Aadhaar number of their children, thus obliging them to create Aadhaar IDs for their children, even though SC in K S Puttaswamy case had said it would be optional. Moreover, the data pertaining to children stored through Apaar would endure through their lives. "No one, in their mid-careers, would want the public to know how they fared academically in their school days.