An Insight to a Digi-Locker

A Digi-locker or Digital locker has been initiated by the Government of India so as to provide freedom to the Indian citizens to store their official documents on the cloud. Interesting right? This particular service is intended to reduce the headache of carrying official documents physically, thus preventing the loss of data to a great extent.

Just like mutual funds offer safe investments with high returns in India, digital locker platform is also defined with tons of benefits. Along with the idea of developing a cashless country, the Indian Government has now been aimed to set paperless governance in motion.

However, not every citizen of India is liable to use this locker. Only the one who possesses an Adhar Card only gets the opportunity to store and secure their data on the cloud. Cloud offers total 1GB of storage space to accumulate the official data that include education certificates, PAN card, driving license, and other necessary documents.

But how to use this DigiLocker? Any idea? Don't need to be panicked. We are here to help you out.

Are you interested to avail the benefits of this DigiLocker? Do you possess your Aadhar Card?

If yes, then the initial step to use your DigiLocker will be to sign up using your Aadhar card number (UIDAI) and a one-time password that will be sent to your Aadhar linked mobile number. Once you are registered into this digital account, you can easily set your own password or link your account with your social media profiles so as to access your locker. Finally, you can scan all your official documents and keep it safe in the cloud so as to use them in the near future.

DigiLocker platform gives space to the three key stakeholders – citizens, issuers, and requesters. But how they react with the DigiLockers?

Citizens - Indian citizens are allowed to store their documents using this locker. They can either upload their data or issue document on the safe cloud.

Uploaded documents represent the scanned copies of the important files that include the driving license, voter's ID card, passport, mark sheets, income tax statements and so on.

Issued documents are the e-documents broadcasted from the DigiLocker by a registered issuer. These issuers basically push the Uniform Resource Indicator (URI) of the e-documents to the respective DigiLockers of the citizens, based on their Aadhar numbers. Being a citizen and member of DigiLocker, you may easily view these links and share the respective URI links.

Issuers – Who are the issuers? The Government agencies who have registered themselves with DigiLockers are termed as an issuer. These agencies are like CBSE, Registrar Office, Income Tax Department, and so on.

Requesters – A Government department that offers citizen services or the organization that needs documentation is termed as a digilocker requester. But, in order to grant a government service, a government agency needs to ascertain an individual's identity, age or nationality.

The digital locker has been incorporated with a pool of benefits. It not just reduce the use of physical documents, but even reduce the administrative expenses, offer the authenticity of e-documents, grants access to government-issued documents, thus providing a soothing service to the Indian residents. Henceforth, it is important to take the leverage and use them efficiently.