All of us are
keen to earn more ! ~ most likely you have a ‘safe deposit locker’ with a
bank … depending on the valuables that you have – as one’s riches increase, one
is forced to chose renting a bigger sized one (may be some require
a room and not a box !) ~ A safe deposit box - is
an individually secured container, usually held within a larger safe or bank
vault. Safe deposit boxes are generally located in banks, post offices or other
institutions. Safe deposit boxes are used to store valuable possessions,
(Gold, silver, diamond ornaments ….) precious metals, currency,
marketable securities, important documents such as wills, property deeds, -
things that need protection from theft, fire, flood, tampering, or other
perils.
This is
no post on a Bank locker, how to get one, what to keep, whether they could be
insured or not ! ~ but on my personal happiness in becoming part of crowd of -
: 7835607 – belated attempt
though !
It is -* DigiLocker
* - the "digital locker" service operated by the Government of India that enables Indian citizens to
store certain official documents on the cloud. The service is aimed towards
reducing the need to carry physical documents, and is part of the PM Shri Narendra
Modiji -led government's Digital India initiative. It comes with huge 1 GB of storage space for
storing identification card issued by Government
agencies, education certificates, PAN cards, driving license, vehicle ownership
documents and some other documents.
To utilize this
service, one need to possess an Aadhar
card. For sign-up, actually, you require
only a mobile no. with which you get an OTP – with which you can create your
User ID & Password – and the link the Aadhar card later. But pulling up the documents from the Issuing
Agencies can be done only when you link your all important Aadhar card number.
The beta version of
the service was rolled out in February 2015, and should have taken the Nation
by storm. Today when checked it has 7835607
users including Yours Truly. Now it
allows students of ICSE board to store their class X and XII certificates in
DigiLocker and share them with agencies as required. A couple of banks and one General Insurance
Company too have started providing access to documents in DigiLocker from
within its net-banking application, allowing users to e-sign them and forward
as needed. The list includes Hospitals -
Tata Memorial Hospital planning to
launch the use of DigiLocker for storing cancer patients' medical documents and
test reports. According to a UIDAI architect,
patients would be provided a number key, which they can share with another
hospital to allow them to access their test reports. What a facility it would turn out to be !
There is also an
associated facility for e-signing documents. The service is intended to
minimise the use of physical documents, reduce administrative expenses, provide
authenticity of the e-documents, provide secure access to government-issued
documents and to make it easy for the residents to receive services. Sooner, DigiLocker will minimise the use of
physical documents and provide authenticity to e-documents.
Issuers of
documents will have the facility to upload and share these with any registered
agency or department. The aim is to make it easy for agencies to share
e-documents and minimise the use of physical ones. Unlike, Online storage platforms like Google
Docs and Dropbox where you have to scan and upload – in Digilocker it is
pulling the document from the Original Issuing Agency thus adding the mark of
authenticity. You can store any other
document too – it can be your Share scrips, MF, Insurance policies, medical
reports, PAN, Voter ID cards, Birth / marriage certificates and more .. .. …
Targeted at the
idea of paperless governance, DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and
verification of documents & certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating
the use of physical documents. The
platform has the following benefits:
1. Citizens can access their digital
documents anytime, anywhere and share it online. This is convenient and time
saving.
2. It reduces the administrative overhead
of Government departments by minimizing the use of paper.
3. Digital Locker makes it easier to
validate the authenticity of documents as they are issued directly by the
registered issuers.
4. Self-uploaded documents can be digitally
signed using the eSign facility (which is similar to the process of
self-attestation).
In Digi terminology
- Issued documents are e-documents issued by various government agencies in
electronic format directly from the original data source and the URI (link) of
these documents is available in the issued documents section of DigiLocker.
Whereas uploaded documents are those e-documents uploaded directly by the
DigiLocker user. A requester, in the
context of DigiLocker, is a government department that offers citizen services
(the revenue department, a passport office or a municipality) or an
organisation that requires documentation (banks, telcos, etc.).
So ~ do you have a
digital locker account – or you could immediately visit : https://digilocker.gov.in/ and sign up
for one.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
23rd Aug
2017.
great
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