DigiLocker is a personal place to keep your documents safe. But to get DigiLocker, it is necessary to have Aadhar card because this DigiLocker is linked to the person’s Aadhar card.
DigiLocker is used by a person to keep his e-documents secure, as well as by using it, a person can keep many more documents safe. These Digilockers can be used by a person using esign.
How to use Digilocker in 2022
Create User Id (User ID Creation)
Step 1) Open the site of Digital Locker by clicking on https://digitallocker.gov.in/ Citizens who have Aadhar Card Number can create Digital Locker, but before that make sure that The instant mobile number is registered on the Aadhar card, if it is not there, then your mobile numbers can be updated by visiting the UIDAI center.
Step 2) Now Click on Sign Up.
Step 3) Enter your 12 digit Aadhaar number in the column below Enter Your Aadhaar Number, after doing this 2 options will appear – Use OTP or Use Fingerprint.
1) Use Aadhar Registered Mobile number – Select “Use OTP”
On selecting this option, the OTP received on the mobile number registered in your Aadhaar will have to be written on the screen. Then click on Verify button. After validation of OTP, you will be asked to create username and password
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2) Use Fingerprint for Authentication – Select “Use Fingerprint”
Aadhar approved biometric device will be required to scan the fingerprint. To use fingerprint instead of mobile phone, click on user fingerprint, if Aadhaar registered mobile number is not available or updated then this option can prove to be very useful.
- Select the device to be used for scanning the fingerprint. Select the declaration check box to continue with the further process.
- Once the finger is placed on the fingerprint scanner, the printed captures will be done on the print scanner, after which the user name and password will have to be created on the application.
- After clicking on the signup button, the account will be created.
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Sign in into Digital locker Account
Click on Sign In :- Click on https://digitallocker.gov.in and when the site opens, click on Sign In given at the top of the page.
Enter user details :- User can login in 3 ways
1) Aadhar Number and OTP
2) Username at the time of account creation
3) By entering the password and validation of Facebook ID
If username option is selected then enter user id and password, and then click on sign in button.
If social media account (Facebook) is selected then enter Facebook ID and password
Uploading Certificate and Documents
- Document Upload Screen – After signing in to Digital Locker, click on Upload Document and then click on Upload to upload your document. Multiple documents can also be uploaded simultaneously.
- Document Upload Screen – Click on the upload button, select the location and select all the files if there is a file or more than one. After selecting the file, click on the Open button, in this way many documents can be uploaded simultaneously. The uploaded documents will appear in the “Upload Documents” section.
- Select Document Type – Click on “Select Doc Type” for any document from the uploaded document list. Select the document type from the given dropdown, if your document is not matching with any of the already selected document type, then select “other” from the drop-down. After all these steps click on the “Save” button.
Viewing Certificate
- After logging in to the Digital Locker account, click on Upload Document to view the uploaded certificates and documents of all the users.
- Users can edit, download and share file name, doc type here.
eSign Document/Certificate
- Click on the link for e-sign in the document given in the Upload Documents section.
- The user will get OTP on the mobile so that the text box can be filled. After entering the OTP, click on the e-sign button. The selected document will have eSign and convert it to PDF if it is not already in PDF.
- Only one document can be e-signed at a time.
Share Documents
- Go to the section of uploaded documents and click on the share link given on each document.
- The user will get the option to enter the email id of whomever he wants to share the document with.
- After entering the email id, click on the send button, the selected document will be shared on the given email, only one document will be shared at a time.
Viewing Issued Documents
- After logging in to the Digital Locker account, click on Issued Documents to view all the issued certificates.
- Users will be able to view the URI of the document shared by the registered issuer.
- On clicking on the URI, the actual document from the database/filesystem of the issuer will be displayed.
Viewing Activity
- After logging in to the Digital Locker account, click on Activity to see the activity of the user.
- The activity list is for viewing only and cannot be edited.
How DigiLocker Helps You
With the help of DigiLocker, the use of physical documents on paper has been reduced. With its help, the e-document gets authenticity. With the help of DigiLocker, the user can keep all his important documents safe.
With the help of DigiLocker, it became easy to handle the papers of government and many offices. And one can easily find any paper by using it, that too without doing any extra work.
In the year 2014, this concept of DigiLocker was introduced by the government to the general public, in this any common man can save all his government documents from birth certificate to degree.
All these documents are saved in digital format and the person can also access it using his/her Aadhaar number.
The beta version of DigiLocker was introduced by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology. This is a very good move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards DigiLocker.
To use this (Digi Locker) facility, the user has to open his own account on its website, this account is opened using the identification number of the user’s Aadhaar card.
The main reason for opening this digital locker is to have all the necessary documents like educational, medical, passport and pan card etc. Any document available with every Indian in digital form at all times so that he can go anywhere at any time and under any circumstances. Can use them too. If he ever loses his paper or does not carry it with him during the journey, then he should not face any problem.
Further, this service will be available only in the beta version, but before this, the government has asked the general public for their comments on it. For this, any user can give his comment on mp.gov.in.
The biggest question regarding this (DigiLocker) feature is about the security of the document. But the secretary of the department of electronics and information technology, R.S. Sharma has assured the public that this system is completely safe.
He has said that the technology being used for its security is of the highest level, in which the data is saved through a one time password which is sent every time to your own given mobile number. The concept of this digital locker is similar to the concept of online banking.
Features of Digi Locker
- DigiLocker can be used by only those people who have Aadhar card.
- If your mobile number and email id are linked with your Aadhar card then you can use DigiLocker.
- If your mobile number which is linked with your Aadhar card is different from the mobile number you are using, then first you have to change your mobile number in registration. Only then you can open DigiLocker.
- Currently 10 MB of space is available for any Digi Locker user but it will be increased to 1 GB.
Advantages of Digi Locker
Due to Digi Locker, the possibility of fraud is reduced: In DigiLocker, any person can keep his data safe. It is not accessible for public Wi-Fi sports, which makes it even more secure. In this, the process management of the data is all safe and it is not shared with any person who has no contact with it.
Quicker turn around time for government services : By using DigiLocker, you can do your work very easily and with this you can do your work very fast like if you want to get your PAN card made. Its minimum time is 2 weeks, but if you get it done by an agent then you have to pay extra money and you can get it made immediately by yourself by digitally signing with the help of DigiLocker.
The cost of government services to be reduce at both ends: By using DigiLocker, the same work can be done with the help of less people, with the help of this, any user can use the computer for less money and less time. can easily do.
Digi Locker Vs Private Cloud Storage Provider
| Sr. No. | Digi Locker | Private Cloud Storage |
| 1 | If you use Digilocker then you do not need to upload your documents to use them all the time, you can use them right away from your digilocker. | But if you want to use them in private cloud storage, then you will have to transfer or download or upload from one place to another. |
| 2 | In Digilocker, your documents are more secure than any other device. Because its responsibility has been taken by the government. | It is your own responsibility to keep your document safe in private cloud storage. |
| 3 | You can prevent corruption by using Digilocker. The time when every work was done manually and you had to pay bribe to do your work, with the help of digilocker, you can stop all this by doing all your work online. | — |
| 4 | If you use digilocker then you do not need to keep hard copy of your document with you everywhere. | But it is necessary to keep a hard copy of your document in private cloud storage. |
DigiLocker has also been started under the introduction of Digital India, whose goal is to reduce the use of physical documents to check the authenticity of documents online in government agencies and use more and more e-documents.
Digilocker App
Digilock app has been started for paperless governance, with the help of this app many tasks like verifying and issuing documents can be done digitally, which will reduce the use of physical documents.
