What is digital Locker..

Digital Locker The new initiative that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch on July 1 - And how can you use it to secure documents securely.

DIGILocker’ is the name given to a new digital locker service being initiated by the Narendra Modi government under its Digital India programme. The storage space (maximum 10 MB at the time of launching & now upgraded to 1GB) The service, operated by the Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY) of the Ministry of Communications & IT, has been running in beta for a couple of months, and will be launched formally by the Prime Minister on July 1. It will allow users to store all kinds of “government issued” documents, ranging from PAN cards to maybe utility bills and property documents, online. There is also an associated facility for e-signing documents. The service is intended to minimize the use of physical documents and to provide authenticity of the e-documents. It will also provide secure access to government issued documents. It is also intended to reduce administrative expenses of government departments and agencies and to make it easy for the residents to receive services. To signup the user must possess an Aadhar Card and a mobile number linked to it(Now linking to Aadhar number is not mandatory - You just need a mobile number to create an account in Digilocker).

The service will let you upload scans or PDFs of a range of documents from utility bills to education certificates and other documents issued by the government. There is also space to save URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) of other documents. In all probability, once the service is launched, you will see a ‘Save URI to DIGILocker’ option appear after utility payments and receipt of documents. For now, you can start by downloading your Aadhaar and saving it in the locker.