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DigiLocker

Updated: 23 Oct 2025
Ministry: Ministry of Electronics & IT
Beneficiary: Miscellaneous

Overview

DigiLocker empowers citizens by providing secure access to their digital documents in a cloud-based wallet. It allows storage, sharing, and verification of certificates linked to the user’s Aadhaar number.

  • Aim: 'Digital Empowerment' of citizen by providing access to authentic digital documents to citizen's digital document wallet.
Grid showing document categories: Central Government, State Government, Ministry of Defence, Transport Departments, Education & Learning, Banking and Insurance, Health & Wellness, Other Organisations, and Most Popular Documents, each with representative icons.
  • DigiLocker is a secure cloud based platform for storage, sharing and verification of documents & certificates.
  • Indian citizens who sign up for a DigiLocker account get a dedicated cloud storage space that is linked to their Aadhaar (UIDAI) number.
  • The issued documents in digilocker system are deemed to be at par with original physical documents as per Rule 9A of the Information Technology (Preservation and Retention of Information by Intermediaries providing Digital Locker facilities) Rules, 2016
Process flow diagram showing three steps to get started: Register Yourself, Verify Yourself with fingerprint, and Fetch your Documents, connected by arrows.