its not of an important necessity to.. rather a thing of choice but if you do, you get to steadily get updates about your application when you checkIs it important/ necessary to create a CIC account/ link paper application online? Because I applied manually and havnt done anything online. Also, I don't know how to do it.
follow this to link yours and be informed, its sometimes tedious to link and you have to try it continuously
Go to point #9
https://caipsgcms.com/blog/8/How-To-Link-Your-Paper-Based-Application-To-Your-Online-Cic-Account