DiGiLocker - Online document storage facility For Indian
New personal safety feature for Indians,
Prime Minister Shri. Narendr Modi is going to Launch Digital Locker Facility
Next Week.
The national Digital Locker System has been
recently launched by the Govt. of India. This Digital Locker (elocker) is part
of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India program/initiative.
PM on July 1 will launch a 'digital locker'
facility that will help citizens to digitally store their important documents
like PAN card, passport, mark sheets and degree certificates.
According to Department of Electronics &
Information Technology (DeitY),Ministry of Communications & IT, Government
of India, "Digital Locker will provide secure access to government-issued
documents. It uses authenticity services provided by Aadhaar,"It is aimed
at eliminating the use of physical documents and enables sharing of verified electronic
documents across government agencies.
Digital Locker provides a dedicated personal
storage space in the cloud to citizens, linked to citizen's Aadhaar number."Digital
Locker will reduce the administrative overhead of government 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,"
"To sign-up for your Digital Locker, one
needs an Aadhaar number with a registered mobile number"
What is
DigiLocker (Digital Locker System)?
Dedicated personal storage space, linked to
each resident’s Aadhaar number. DigiLocker can be used to securely store
e-documents like Voter Id card, PAN card, BPL card, Driving license, education
certificates etc., as well as store Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) link of
e-documents issued by various issuer departments. The e-Sign facility provided
as part of DigiLocker system can be used to digitally sign e-documents. You can
upload your legal, official id proofs and important gov. documents. These
documents will be linked to your Aadhar number and can be treated as authorized
documents. So, you may not need to carry physical documents while applying for
jobs or government certificates or educational institutions etc.,
How it
Works?
- Steps to Register with DigiLocker
- To Sign-up for the Digilocker you need to go digitallocker.gov.in and click for Register.
- You have a valid Aadhaar number registered with Aadhaar.
- Please type your Aadhaar number in the text box against “Enter Aadhaar Number”.
- You will be given two options for user authentication. “Use OTP” and “Use Fingerprint”.
- You can click on any one of the button.
- After clicking on “Use OTP”, an OTP (One Time Password) will be sent by UIDAI to the mobile number and email-id registered with your Aadhaar.
- Enter the OTP and click on ‘Validate OTP’ button.
- Once the OTP is validated the user is taken to set username/password page to complete sign up
- After Clicking on “Use Fingerprint” User will have to put the thumb print on the finger print device.
- If the finger print is valid, then user is authenticated and taken to set username/password page to complete sign up.
How it can
be going to help you?
According to DigiLocker, It will minimize the use of physical documents and will provide authenticity of the e-documents.
- It will provide secure access to Govt. issued documents.
- It will also reduce administrative overhead of Govt. departments and agencies and make it easy for the residents to receive services.
The Digital India program vision of electronic resident document system should address two key aspects:
- Minimizing usage of physical documents no scan/photocopies, no physical papers) via electronic formats and sharing across agencies; and
- Eliminating usage of fake documents no fake govt/degree certificates, no fake usage of someone via a mechanism to verify Digital authentication of government issued documents online.
Provide a default DzDigiLockerdz for people to store and access Government issued documents in the Government cloud if they wish to subscribe.
Proposed Architecture at High Level.
For More technical Specification you can
refer official pdf by click here: https://digitallocker.gov.in/Resource/technical_specifications_dlts_ver2.pdf
Official DigiLocker System Presentation
Download or Refer by this link: https://digitallocker.gov.in/Resource/Introduction_to_Digital_Locker.PDF
For User Manual and Resourse You guys also
refer Main Link: https://digitallocker.gov.in/Resource.aspx
Courtesy:
DIGILocker , Department of Electronics &
Information Technology (DeitY) Ministry of Communications & IT, Government
of India