Education

The National Scholarship Portal (NSP) is a single platform for various central and state scholarship schemes for students. Students register, apply and track scholarships in one place.

National Scholarship Portal

Vidya Lakshmi is a single-window portal where students can search education loan schemes across multiple banks, apply to several of them with one common application form, and track every application's status in one place — instead of visiting each bank separately with a fresh set of paperwork. It's jointly run by the Department of Financial Services, the Department of Higher Education and the Indian Banks' Association.

Dept. of Financial Services, Dept. of Higher Education & Indian Banks' Association — Vidya Lakshmi

APAAR (Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry) is a 12-digit lifelong academic ID issued under NEP 2020's "One Nation One Student ID" initiative. It links to the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) so that credits, marksheets, certificates and co-curricular achievements from school through higher education get stored in one digital record — usable for credit transfer between institutions, scholarship verification and skill-course recognition, instead of each institution holding a separate paper trail.

Ministry of Education / Dept. of School Education & Literacy — APAAR