Driving Licenses and Vehicle Registration Certificates can now be accessed through Mobile App
A new service – integration of DigiLocker
with Driving Licenses (DL) & Vehicle Registration Certificates (RC), was
recently launched by the government.
- 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.
Key features:
- 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.
Its significance:
- This platform is a major step forward towards ensuring greater transparency and cutting down corruption and red-tapism. The move will benefit a large number of people by facilitating ease of access to the documents.
- 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.
Background:
DigiLocker, launched 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.
