Amping up DigiLocker as India moves to the next wave of digitisation

India's citizens will soon be able to access a wider range of authentic documents through their digital document wallets

This year’s Economic Survey says that dematerialisation of documents will be the focus of the next wave of digitisation in the country, after the success of Aadhaar as an instrument of digital identity and the widespread adoption of UPI (Unified Payments Interface), a seamless platform for financial transactions. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took this a notch further in her Budget speech, declaring that the scope of DigiLocker, a centralised digital repository of documents, would be expanded.

The plan is to expand DigiLocker for availing digital health records, simplify Know Your Customer processes, and provide a one-stop solution for the identities