DigiLocker is a "digital locker" service launched by the Government of India in February 2015 to provide a secure dedicated personal electronic space for storing the documents of resident Indian citizens.The storage space is upto 1 GB is linked to the Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar number) of the user.The space can be utilized for storing personal documents like University certificates, Permanent account number (PAN) cards, voter id cards, etc., and the URIs of the e-documents issued by various issuer departments. There is also an associated facility for e-signing documents. The service is intended to minimize the use of physical documents and to provide authenticity of the e-documents.To signup the user must possess an Aadhar Card and a mobile number linked to it.
Various government agencies are registered with DigiLocker as issuers and they can issue e-documents to citizens. These agencies include CBSE, Registrar Office, Income Tax Department, and so on. In 2016, CBSE issued the class 12th result, while NEET issued the rank letter, on DigiLocker. Also, all the CBSE results now onwards would be issued on DigiLocker. DigiLocker also provides the facility for issuers to issue legacy data but that would require Aadhaar seeding in the issuers’ legacy databases.
Structure of the digital locker
1)My Certificates:
a)Digital Documents: This contains the URI's of the documents issued to the user by government departments or other agencies.
b)Uploaded Documents: This subsection lists all the documents which are uploaded by the user. Each file to be uploaded should not be more than 10MB in size. Only pdf, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp and gif file types can be uploaded.
2)My Profile: This section displays the complete profile of the user as available in the UIDAI database.
3)My Issuer: This section displays the issuers' names and the number of documents issued to the user by the issuer.
4)My Requester: This section displays the requesters' names and the number of documents requested from the user by the requesters.
5)Directories: This section displays the complete list of registered issuers and requesters along with their URLs.
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