Information of DigiLocker

1) DigiLocker means digital locker. It is the digital online service of uploading and fetching the documents provided by government of India under its Digital India initiative. This service has launched by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 July 2015. Most of the documents we can download from this DigiLocker.

2) DigiLocker has many organizations where people can download their original documents. E.g. - we can download digital driving license before it reaches physically at our home. We can get Aadhar number, life insurance policies, car or two-wheeler insurance etc. on DigiLocker. Everything is available on DigiLocker. So it is being popular among users.

3) DigiLocker has 4 main pillars.

            i) User - who possess the Aadhar number they can register to DigiLocker. To get OTP, our mobile number should be linked with Aadhar.

            ii) Issuer (Organizations/entities) - which offer us the documents. E.g. SSC/HSC board which offer us passing certificate of 10^th and 12^th respectively; Income tax department who offer us PAN etc. So such organizations are called as the issuer of the documents.

            iii) Requester - who don’t ask the document for the purpose of verification. E.g. Zerodha is the mobile application where we can start our demat account for the investment in the stocks. They don’t ask us to submit our Aadhar and PAN card. They just ask the numbers and after that they crosscheck them with DigiLocker.

            iv) Technical support team - the organizations which are working with DigiLocker.

4) DigiLocker logo contains cloud symbol. It indicates that it works on the concept of cloud computing where we have been given certain storage. Here we can upload as well as download/fetch the documents from certain organizations like Aadhar card, EPF, Income tax department etc.

5) We can show DigiLocker documents as our ID at Indian railways, airport etc.

6) Statistic of DigiLocker:-

 On home page of DigiLocker website (https://www.digilocker.gov.in/dashboard) we can see how many users are registered and how many documents are issued to users.

For more statistic click on ‘View Statistics’ option as shown in above image.

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In above figure we can see that year wise registration data and year wise issued documents data. Also we can see that it has taken a huge leap in terms of registration during pandemic (2020-2021). When lockdown started many people had started to conduct the webinars on DigiLocker and many users have registered on it.

From 2016-20 3.81 cr. people had registered on DigiLocker and just in 1 year i.e. 2020-2021 total count reached to 9.16 cr. i.e. almost 2.5 times. 

In figure 1 we can see that there are 1766 issuers/organizations who issue documents to the users and 358 requesters/companies are there to crosscheck our documents online. These numbers will keep changing in future.

If we want to check which document can we get on DigiLocker then click on ‘DOCUMENTS’ option as we can see in figure 1.

 

In above figure we can see that there are 568 different types of documents available on DigiLocker. We can download Aadhar card, policy document of life insurance, health insurance or car insurance, PAN etc.

In the same way, we can see the name of issuers and requesters with description by clicking on ‘ISSUERS’ and ‘REQUESTERS’ option as shown in the figure 1.

7) On home page we can see the most popular documents like Aadhar card, COVID-19 Vaccination certificate, Driving license, Vehicle registration, Ration card, SSC/HSC mark sheets etc.

 

8) We can crosscheck how many states are registered under DigiLocker and providing services to the employees, citizens and providing which type of document. This option is also there on home page.

We can download the documents belonging to our state by selecting our state name that is shown in above image.

9) We can search the document whichever we want to download from below option on home page.

10) There are certain companies/organizations which are linked with central government. We can download the documents from those organizations.

We can see in above picture there are 31 companies are linked with central government.

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 In above picture we can see there are 397 educational organizations registered on DigiLocker and providing degree/diploma certificates to their students.

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 There are 45 banking and insurance organizations which are working with DigiLocker.

So like this we can see the list of organizations which are working under DigiLocker on home page of DigiLocker website.

13) As per act IT Act 2000 the issued documents provided through Digital Locker are at par with the corresponding physical certificates.

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For any questions regarding DigiLocker we can use ‘FAQs’ option on home page as shown in above picture to get solutions. Still if our query doesn’t solve then we can choose option Need Help as shown in above picture.

Under ‘Internship’ option there are many work from home internships are available.

Under ‘Careers’ option there are many technical and management jobs are available in DigiLocker.

Under ‘Credits’ section we can see the organizations or community which are working for DigiLocker.

If we want our organization to become issuer or requester then simply select ‘Partners’ option and do further process.

15) Registration on DigiLocker:-

If we are an existing user then simply go for ‘Sign In’ option on home page and by typing our mobile no/Aadhar no/Username and six digit security pin we can sign in our account.

But if we are a new user then choose ‘Sign up’ option and fill below details:

After filling above information we will just have to verify our OTP and after this step our account will be successfully created.

16) After sign in we can add nominee details in ‘My Profile’ section. So that after our death if our people are looking for documents then nominee can access our DigiLocker and get the documents.

17) In the same page after sign in we have the option of ‘Drive’ as we can see in the left section of below image where we can store our documents. The storage capacity provided by DigiLocker to us is 1 GB.  In this drive we can upload the documents which are only in jpg, jpeg, png and pdf format. Ensure that our file size should not be more than 10 MB. File name should be simple (i.e. it should not contain special characters such as # ; @). We can sign our documents digitally by choosing option of ‘Sign’ in front of the uploaded document name.

18) Sometime we have to submit our Aadhar as ID proof.  By doing this we are taking a huge risk of providing a copy of our Aadhar card. Instead of that we can provide mask Aadhar as ID proof. DigiLocker gives us this mask Aadhar. Mask means in our 12 digit Aadhar number first 8 digits are in xxxxxxxx format and only last 4 digits are shown.  We can get this Aadhar by selecting Search Documents as shown in above image and further by selecting Aadhar Card option.  The documents which we are going to fetch will get store in Issued Documents section as shown in above image.

            So this is all about the information regarding DigiLocker.