Uses and benefits of Digilocker

Digilocker 

How to register an account on DigiLocker?

1. You have to start by visiting the official website https://digilocker.gov.in/

2. Click on "sign up" button given on the homepage.

3. Sign up page will appear.You have to enter your mobile number and have to click on "continue" option.

4. Now create your Username and password as per the instructions given.You can use your email or phone number as username after your Digilocker account will be successfully created you will click on "sign up"button

5. After Digilocker account creating you can also submit your Aadhaar details allow you to avail the service on Digilocker.you have to enter your Aadhaar number in the box provided and have to click on submit option.After that you can avail all the Digilocker services whenever required.

6. You have to login by using the username and password which you have created.

7. Click on"upload" option on the screen as shown in the picture.

What is Digilocker?

A national Digital locker system has been recently launched by the the Govt of India named Digilocker. The digital locker is part of Prime ministers Digital India program /initiative. Department of Electronics and Information Technology under Ministry of communications and IT- Government of India has launched the Beta version of this online documents storage facility on 10th feb 2015.   In July 2016,Digilocker recorded 20.13Lakh users with a repository of 24.23Lakh documents.From 2017, the facility was extended to allow students of ICSE board to store their class X and XII certificates in Digilocker and share them with agencies in required.As of July 2019, Digilocker provides access to over 352+crore digital documents available from 124 issuer's over 2crore users are registered on Digilocker.34 requester organizations are accepting documents from Digilocker. Digilocker allows you to avail dedicated cloud storage space up to 1Gb free of cost.While you have to provide your 12 digit Aadhar number to open the account,the Aadhaar data will not reside with the asset management company.A few companies are considering using Digilocker account an alternative.The Digilockers account allows you to store the scanned copies of all your documents on the cloud and provides access to these when required.once you have the account, you can either upload the documents yourself or contact companies and organizations registered with Digilocker and they can directly push electronic copies of documents sch as Voter id, driving license, school and university certificates and pan card into your account.It makes sense to get organizations to put your document in the account directly as that assures the authenticity of documents.you can access the documents anywhere anytime through the Digilocker app on your smartphone or by signing into your PC/Laptop.You can also save the relevant documents on a device and get a printout,if required.Digilocker also allows account holders to electronically sign their document using the e-sign facility making self attestation easier.For mutual fund companies or other organizations willing to do online verification.Digilocker can make the processing faster.The facility keeps your documents secure. According to the Digilocker website the facility currently provides access to 3.6 billion digital documents.