Minister of State for External Affairs Shri V. Muraleedharan today
launched a new scheme by which an applicant can leverage the DigiLocker
platform of Government of India while applying for passport related services
from anywhere in India. With the launch of this new scheme, applicants
applying for passport services can provide link to their specific documents
uploaded in the DigiLocker. This would enable citizens to submit various
documents required for Passport Services through DigiLocker in a paperless
mode. They are not required to carry the original documents. DigiLocker is a
key initiative under Digital India, a flagship program aimed at transforming
India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. DigiLocker
provides citizens a sharable private space on a public cloud enabling
availability of all documents/certificates provided on this cloud. Targeted at
paperless governance, DigiLocker is a platform for issuance and verification of
documents/ certificates in a digital way, thus eliminating the use of physical
documents. Further, once passports are also uploaded in DigiLocker, details
would be easily accessible to authorized users from any location, which would
be useful especially in case of loss of passport.
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