Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Road Transport & Highways and
Shipping and Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Electronics &
Information Technology and Law & Justice jointly launched a new
service - integration of DigiLocker with Driving Licenses (DL) &
Vehicle Registration Certificates (RC) in New Delhi today. With this
integration people will no longer need to carry around physical copies
of their RCs and Driving Licences. They can instead access digital
copies of the same on their mobile phones via the DigiLocker mobile app.
Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration documents can now be issued
directly to the DigiLockers of individuals in digital formats. These
digital copies can be shared with other departments as identity and
address proof. They will also be used for on the spot verification
through the cittizen’s mobile, by various law enforcement authorities
like the Traffic Police. Besides being convenient for people, this will
also result in assured authenticity of such documents and reduction of
administrative overhead.
Speaking on the occasion Shri Nitin Gadkari said that this platform is a
major step forward towards ensuring greater transparency and cutting
down corruption and red-tapism. He said the move will benefit a large
number of people by facilitating ease of access to the documents.
Launching the service Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the integration
will bring a paradigm shift in the vision of paperless governance. It
will serve to bring agility and efficiency to the entire process of
issuance of driving licenses and vehicle registration certificates
through IT enablement.
DigiLocker, launched by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in July
last year, aims at transforming India into a digitally empowered society
and knowledge economy. It is a platform for issuance and verification
of documents and certificates digitally. When a person signs up for a
DigiLocker he gets access to a dedicated cloud storage space for his
important documents. DigiLocker currently has 21,26,332 registered users
with 24,11,702 uploaded documents and has issued over 4,26,73,232
documents as on 01 September 2016. The Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways is actively digitizing driving licences and registration
certificates and maintaining a National Register System. With today’s
launch this National Register System has got integrated with
DigiLocker, making over 19 crore Vehicle Registration Certificates and
over 9 crore driving licenses available in the citizens’ lockers. Once
the data from the remaining RTO’s is updated in the National Register
Systems, the digital copies of those driving licenses and vehicle
registration certificates will also be available via DigiLocker.
In order to access the digital RC and DL a person needs to first sign up
for a DigiLocker. He then needs to download the DigiLocker Android App
from Google PlayStore. In the Mobile App he will have to select the
Issued Documents section and then the DL/RC. Field staff like the
Traffic Police can do offline verification of RC/DL using QR Code. Apart
from the mobile view version, digitally signed documents can also be
accessed electronically, and these will be at par with the physical
issued documents as per IT Act 2000.
Shri Ajay Kumar, Additional Secretary, MeitY informed that with today’s
integration, MoRTH becomes the 17th issuer to issue its documents to
DigiLocker. He also informed that this is the largest such integration
since DigiLocker was launched last July.
Shri Abhay Damle, Joint Secretary, MoRTH said that the Ministry is
working towards intergrating even documents like vehicle insurance and
fitness certificates to DigiLocker .
The integration is the result of continuous coordination between MoRTH
and MeitY with technical support from National Informatics Centre and
National e-Governance Division (NeGD) under the Ministry of Electronics
& Information Technology. Secretary MeitY and senior officials of
NIC were also present on the occasion.
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