The Union government’s ‘digital locker’ service—DigiLocker— has seen a substantial surge in the number of registered users from 11.23 lakh in 2015-16 to 82.66 lakh in 2016-17 while the number of uploaded documents in the same period too increased from 19.36 lakh to 104 lakh.
Revealing the data, Minister for Information and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said, the ‘DigiLocker’ mobile app—launched by the Centre in February 2015—is a “secure medium” to share and access documents digitally.
“@digilocker_ind is a secure medium to share and access any of your certificates and documents digitally. #DigitalIndia,” Prasad tweeted.
DigiLocker provides a secure dedicated personal electric space to the citizens of the country to store government documents and certificates.
It is one of the key initiatives under Digital India Programme, which the Indian government initiated to digitally empower society, and targets the idea of paperless governance.
On 7 Sptember, 2016, the government announced that people can save their driving licences and vehicle registration certificates in DigiLocker to facilitate access to documents anytime and anywhere.
The digital documents like driving license and vehicle registration, available on smartphones are considered authentic by law enforcement agencies including traffic police.