India's Ministry of Education is looking to develop an app that can link the National Academic Depository, which is an online database for students to store their degrees, certificates, etc., with the Aadhaar database and DigiLocker. According to two different 'problem statements' for the Smart India Hackathon 2022 issued by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE), the council and the Ministry of Education aim to track students and colleges to help them in developing an app that can help in — Student identification AICTE-approved college tracking Distribution of fellowships Grants and training Currently, the AICTE said that it does not have a singular point for undertaking such processes and "hence to track the huge number manually is hectic and a time taking process due to which many students and graduates may miss out on important opportunities." This comes a few months after the Unique Identification Authority of India, in a memorandum, said Central and state government ministries will be able to share partially-masked Aadhaar number along with demographic information among themselves. The app will store students' biometric and college details The app which will provide a linkage between National Academic Depository, DigiLocker, and the Aadhaar portal, should be able to store students' biometric and college details for helping them in tracking jobs, fellowships, and schemes, the AICTE said. "This App will provide the link between Aadhaar Number & Roll Number and the students should update the data of “Aadhaar Number” along with “Roll Number” on National Academic Depositary…
