Brief Background
- Leading paperless initiative that provides private locker to every citizen in Government of India’s cloud
- DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of documents & certificates digitally
Objectives
- Ensure authenticity of the e-documents and eliminate usage of fake documents
- Provide consent based and secure access to various critical lifelong documents
- Anytime, anywhere access to their documents by the individuals.
Benefits and Impact
- Secure and Private: Accessed by user consent, no unverified usage of records, secure platform
- Anytime, anywhere usage: Shareable and accessible on the move using desktop or mobile
- Environment friendly:Paperless process reducing cost to the environment
- Facilitating 561 Million users and providing 9.7 Billion issued documents
Implementation Methodology
- A dedicated team handles continuous development & management of the Platform
- A dedicated team provides handholding support and on-boarding of agencies
- Capacity building is in the form of workshops and practical hands-on.
- Adoption of DigiLocker in various domains is done by liaising with various regulators (RBI, SEBI, IRDA, TRAI, PFRDA).
- The Information Technology (Preservation & Retention of Information by Intermediaries Providing Digital Locker Facilities) Rules, 2016 notified to provide legal backing to documents issued through DigiLocker.
Modalities of implementation
- DigiLocker system is developed on an Open Source stack and the components in its entirety or in parts may be made available to other countries for their own implementation of a similar product.
- Utilization of cloud based services by DigiLocker for secure and scalable system can be good best practise to be replicated globally.
Prominent Use-cases
- DigiYatra – Seamless passage at Airport
- Driving License showcase to traffic police
- Academic record verification service
