About

  • DigiLocker is a flagship initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) as part of the Digital India drive.
  • DigiLocker intends to give citizens ‘Digital Empowerment’ by giving them access to authentic digital documents stored in their digital document wallet.
  • As per Rule 9A of the Information Technology Act, issued papers in the DigiLocker system are deemed to be equivalent to original physical documents.

Benefits To Citizens

  • Important Documents Anytime, Anywhere!
  • Authentic Documents, Legally at Par with Originals.
  • Digital Document Exchange with the consent of the citizen.
  • Faster service Delivery- Government Benefits, Employment, Financial Inclusion, Education, Health.

Benefits To Agencies

Reduced Administrative Overhead: Aimed at the concept of paperless governance. It reduces the administrative overhead by minimizing the use of paper and curtailing the verification process.
Digital Transformation: Provides trusted issued documents. Issued Documents available via DigiLocker are fetched in real-time directly from the issuing agency.
Secure Document Gateway: Acts as a secure document exchange platform like payment gateway between trusted issuer and trusted Requester/Verifier with the consent of the citizen.
Real Time Verification: Provides a verification module enabling government agencies to verify data directly from issuers after obtaining user consent.

Acceptance of DigiLocker degrees, marksheets as valid documents-UGC urges to varsities

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has urged all varsities and colleges to recognise and accept degrees, marksheets and other documents in DigiLocker accounts as valid documents.
“As you are aware, the National Academic Depository (NAD) is an online warehouse of academic awards (degrees and mark-sheets) submitted by academic institutions in a digital format,” the UGC writes in a letter to universities. It allows students to obtain valid documents and credentials in digital format from their original issuers at any time and from any location without having to travel."
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has approved the UGC’s designation as the certified organisation for implementing NAD as a permanent system without levying any user fees, in collaboration with Digilocker as a single NAD depository.
HEIs can use the Digilocker NAD interface to register and upload their academic awards to NAD.
Once uploaded through the DigiLocker NAD platform by the original issuer, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (MeitY) Digilocker platform can bring students’ degree marksheets and other documents into the issued documents section in an electronic form. The electronic records in the DigiLocker platform are valid documents under the terms of the Information Technology Act of 2000.

GeetYaduvanshi
No, not everywhere, but you can show your documents to the traffic police, at the airport, and in the bank.
Aur ab sun’ne me aa raha ki 2022 se college admission me digilocker valid rahega.