Sunday, April 9, 2017
What Is DIGILocker and How Does It Work
What Is DIGILocker and How Does It Work
Digital Locker is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India Programme - External website that opens in a new window. A beta version of the same has been already released by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India. Digital Locker is aimed at minimizing the usage of physical documents and enable sharing of e-documents across agencies.
With the help of this Portal, the sharing of the e-documents will be done through registered repositories thereby ensuring the authenticity of the documents online. Residents can also upload their own electronic documents and digitally sign them using the e-sign facility. These digitally signed documents can be shared with Government organizations or other entities.
‘DIGILocker’ is the name given to a new digital locker service being initiated by the Narendra Modi government under its Digital India programme.
Online lockers have been around for some years now, and can securely save a variety of digital files in a virtual space. The popular ones like DropBox and Evernote let you send and receive files as well. Extra storage and services are most often paid.
Like other online lockers, DIGILocker too lets users store their documents in a secure online locker. The service, operated by the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) of the Ministry of Communications & IT, has been running in beta for a couple of months, and will be launched formally by the Prime Minister on July 1.
It will allow users to store all kinds of “government issued” documents, ranging from PAN cards to maybe utility bills and property documents, online.
Indian citizens will be able to avail a maximum of 10MB storage space, using their Aadhaar numbers to sign up. Once the Aadhaar number has been entered, a one-time password (OTP) will be sent to your registered mobile phone to initiate the first log-in. After that, users would be able to set their own passwords, and line the account to Google and Facebook for easy access in future.
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