Students’Aadhaar validation adaunting task for educators
SruthySusan.Ullas@timesofindia.com 08.11.2024
Bengaluru : The department of school education and literacy is undertaking a massive exercise to get students’Aadhaar numbers validated in Student Achievement Tracking System. However, institutions are not pleased as students’ names in Aadhaar cards and school records don’t match in several instances. “It is a Herculean task. The names of students and their parents in SATS and Aadhaar do not match. SATS data is sourced from birth certificates. Thus, Aadhaar does not get validated. We have to keep requesting parents to make changes in Aadhaar. There is so much pressure from the education department to get this done quickly, but it is not easy,” said a school representative.
A govt school teacher said: “Finally, we teachers have to spend a lot of time doing all this. We now have at least four numbers generated for a student — SATS ID, Aadhaar number, UDISE ID and APAAR. Such bureaucratic work takes away valuable time from teachers.” Sashi Kumar D, secretary, Association of Managements of Primary and Secondary Schools of Karnataka, said:
“The problem is with how parents fill in the names of students. In the birth certificate, it would be spelt one way. But they would change the way it is spelt while applying for Aadhaar. Aadhaar and school records won’t match. Parents have to be more serious in the way they create records.” It was in Feb 2023 that the department started collecting Aadhaar numbers of students. After Aadhaar was linked to SATS, several instances of duplication were uncovered
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