The facility of digital locker has been introduced to concretise the concept of paperless governance. Through this facility, space will be available to every citizen on Government cloud. In it, one can safely store one’s scanned or digitalised copies of important documents including academic certificates, driving licence, passport, etc. To avail this facility, one should register himself with the help of his Aadhar Number on www.digitallocker.gov.in or www.digilocker.gov.in.
It is noteworthy that Government of India has introduced digital locker to provide facility to people for smooth and safe maintenance and receipt of records. If one’s mobile number is not linked with Aadhar Number, he should visit nearest Aadhar registration centre, MP Online kiosk, Public Facilitation Centre or any other authorised agency to avail facility of digital locker.
Secretary to CM and Science &Technology Hari Ranjan Rao has desired from all government departments, heads of departments and collectors to ensure benefit of digital locker to people in the context of Government of India’s directives.
People have to produce copies of their important documents on a number of occasions. Apart from maintenance of these documents, authenticity of these documents is also a challenging task. Objective of the scheme is digitally empower people by providing them space on government cloud, minimise use of hard copies of documents, provide facility to maintain their electronically and digitally signed documents online, determine authenticity of documents through e-signature, curb fake documents, ensure safe access to government documents issued to people through web portal or mobile, minimise expenditure on maintenance of physical records, make available their documents to people anywhere and anytime, ensure secrecy of data and its use only by authorised persons and institutions and ensure use of open and standard structure.
For availing digital locker facility, one should have Aadhar Number and mobile number integrated with Aadhar. He should log in entering Aadhar Number. OTP will be received on entering Aadhar-integrated mobile number. Following this, identity of applicant will be verified by Unique Identification Authority of India through “e-KYC (e know your client)”. After this, applicant can see URls of certificates and documents in his digital locker.
It has been desired in the circular issued in this regard that all departments, government agencies and organizations will also maintain digital records of documents issued by them to people and take necessary action for paperless governance. E-mail id ceo@mapit.gov.in or vinay.pandey@mapit.gov.in or mobile number 9425180624 may be contacted for further details.