Chandigarh, April 21 -- (Blurb) Aim is to bring students to mainstream institutes, says official; city has 79 unrecognised schools

The UT education department will use APAAR IDs to bring students of unrecognised schools to mainstream institutions. The department recently held a meeting with representatives of unrecognised schools regarding this.

Harsuhinderpal Singh Brar, director, school education, said the APAAR ID tracks the progress of students from nursery till PhD. "Since students at unrecognised schools won't have APAAR IDs, we have told the schools and the students that they won't be able to switch to mainstream schools as gaps will appear in the system. It will also be flagged if they choose to go to college. With these new IDs...