UT launches 'Digilocker' enrolment drive

In order to deliver the message of ‘Digital India’ to Citizens and encourage digital Citizen to Government (C2G) interactions, the UT Administration through Department of Information Technology has launched the enrolment drive to “Digilocker” across all e-Sampark Centres of the city. SB Deepak Kumar, UT Secretary Information Technology said “The e-Certificates issued by Chandigarh Administration shall directly be sent to the Citizens Digilocker, from where the citizens will have the option to share the certificates with integrated Departments in future. This process will eliminate the attestation of physical copies of Certificates/Documents.”

He added “citizens can easily store and access their important certificates & documents anytime-anywhere without compromise on security”. Digital locker is a big step forward to transform the entire country into a digitally empowered nation. It is dedicated personal storage space, linked to each resident’s Aadhaar number. Digilocker can be used to securely store e-documents as well as store Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) link of e-documents issued by various issuer Departments. The e-Sign facility provided as part of Digilocker system can be used to digitally sign e-documents. Every user account will get 10 MB of dedicated free electronic storage space, which will be linked to their Aadhaar details, said Deepak Kumar.

Around 450 citizens including Administration employees got themselves registered to open their Digilocker.Further, in order to facilitate the enrollment of citizens to Digilocker, Chandigarh Administration urged the citizens to bring their Aadhaar number along with linked mobile number for OTP verification to get their Digilocker created free of cost at the nearest e-Sampark Center.

While mentioning the significant advantages of Digilocke, Director IT Prine. Dhawan said “The Digilocker facility would eliminate the need of physical documents, the probability of loss of documents and the transit delays. Importantly it shall reduce the physical visits of Citizens to Government Offices and facilitate digital Citizen to Government (C2G) interactions”.