Bravo Digital India! 6.02 crore users register themselves on DigiLocker
20 Apr 2021 10:14:14
New Delhi, April 20: While on the path of Aatmanirbharta, the Indian government has been active in promoting and boosting the use of DigiLocker, an important initiative under the Digital India campaign, Taking to twitter, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed that till date 6.02 crore users had registered themselves on DigiLocker platform and that it had become easier for the citizens to share and access authentic documents in digital form.
In 2018, the Indian government had passed an advisory for states to accept driving licence and vehicle registration stored in DigiLocker and the mParivahan app. That move was aimed to eliminate the need for carrying physical versions of the documents while driving.
DigiLocker is a cloud storage service for your government-issued documents created by Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) under Digital India Corporation (DIC). It uses your Aadhaar Card as identification and allows you to digitise your documents and make them available to you at all times, provided you have an Internet connection. These digitised documents are considered to be at par with original physical ones and are accepted by railways, traffic police, and most recently, for passport services.
DigiLocker can have issued documents and uploaded documents. Issued documents are e-documents that have been issued by government agencies to an individual directly from the original source. These documents are stored as URLs in the issued documents section. The uploaded documents, as the name suggests, are the ones that an individual uploads to a DigiLocker account. These can include .pdf, .jpeg, and .png files that are below 10MB in size.
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