Digital Locker Scheduled to be Launched on 1st July 2015 by the Hon. Prime Minister
How are you storing all your important documents such as PAN card, passport, mark sheets and degree certificates today? They must be stored in physical format in a folder. We share these documents and their paper copies with other agencies as proof of identity (PoI) and proof of address (PoA). To store all these physical documents is a difficult task not only for you but also for these agencies. Moreover, authenticating the originality of these documents is a cumbersome task for the agencies. And have you ever wondered about the safety of these documents in case of fire or theft? So, it is very important to bring the issuers of the document, the citizens and the user agencies on one platform.
To address all these concerns, Govt. of India has created a platform calledDigital Lockerthrough Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The beta versionof the application was released on 10th February 2015.
Digital Locker is scheduled for a national launch on 1st July 2015 by the Hon. Prime Minister.
What is Digital Locker?
Digital Locker is a key initiative under Digital India program. It aims at eliminating the use of physical documents and enables sharing of verified electronic documents across agencies. Digital Locker provides a dedicated personal storage space in the cloud to citizens, linked to citizen’s Aadhaar number. It will enable various organizations registered on Digital Locker to push certificates of citizens directly in their Digital Locker in electronic format. Citizens can also upload and securely store the scanned copies of legacy documents in Digital Locker. These legacy documents can be electronically signed using eSign facility. A citizen can share these electronic certificates online with various departments and agencies registered on Digital Locker while applying for the services provided by them. Thus, Digital Locker brings the citizens, issuers and requestors on one platform.
What are the key benefits of Digital Locker?
Digital Locker will provide secure access to documents issued by various agencies. It uses authenticity services provided by Aadhaar. Digital Locker will minimize the use of physical documents by use of the electronic documents. It is easy to validate the authenticity of these documents as they will be issued directly by the registered issuers. Digital Locker will reduce the administrative overhead of departments and agencies created due to paper work. It will also make it easy for the residents to receive services by saving time and effort as their documents will now be available anytime, anywhere and can be shared electronically.
How to Sign up for Digital Locker?
To Sign-Up for your Digital Locker, you need your Aadhaar number and a Mobile number that is linked to that Aadhaar Number. Here are simple steps to signup –
- Visit the Sign up page of Digital Locker.
- Enter your Aadhaar number in the Aadhaar Number box and click Use OTP button.
- A one time pin (OTP) will be sent to your mobile through a SMS.
- Enter this OPT in the OTP box and click Validate OTP button.
- The application then asks you to create a username and password. Enter these details and click Submit button.
- On successful registration you will see My Certificates page. You are signed up!
So, if you are not already signed up, you canclick here to create your own Digital Locker today!
To know more about Digital Locker, please visit the Resources page of the Digital Locker.
To visit the blog on beta release of Digital Locker click here.
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There must be proper technique to upload document in digital form. There are chances of duplicate upload of document.In order to reduce duplication of document government or organization giving such certificate must provide digital code or any digital proof which can eradicate any duplicate document or any such mal practices. Schools & colleges must have approval details in digital form of aicte or bar council etc so that no mal practices are being carried out by any educational institution
Digital locker :- Yes true this facility mainly should implemented in all govt. Depart. As a personally am facing lot of issue with Karnataka government, Bangalore university With regards to documentation of certificate.
if universities starts issuing digital certificates, opening of digital locker will gain momentum..
Government taken a good step but only thing Government need to aware that this site should not hake since this is docuemnt of people.
it is good for every indian but how much it is secure ?
for digital india, i have a suggestion that the railway passes for 1 or 3 months can be made as e -pass as all the traveller are now a days having android or the simple mobile phone. similarly for the state government buses too especially for college student the pass can be made epass as most of them have mobile and for who dont have continue paper passes
Its true
but in our country its not authentic without attested
and sadly to say no one ask digital and not accepted too
everyone ask for hard copy with attestation
to sign up every one should have aadhaar no. the otp or finger print is requred……..
there are two problem in it while registering of aadhaar no one registered there mobile no. now OTP is required for sign up it is not possible for many people.(even me also) to register our mobile no we should somewhere(because aadhaar enroll centers are not there in every place)
the biometric finger print bio metric devices are required.
a great work and it will also help against corruption and a step towards paper less job and now it is not necessary to carry paper any more