DigiLocker now helps passports: Here are the main points

The Digilocker app has been a helpful instrument for a lot of Indians, permitting them to maintain essential paperwork like their Aadhaar card on their particular person always. Now, Union Minister V Muraleedharan has introduced that the app will quickly let customers submit the paperwork required for passport companies in a paperless mode, after which the customers needn’t carry the unique paperwork.
Integration between the Digilocker app and the ‘Passport Seva Programme’ will make availing passport companies much less of a trouble. Additionally, since most customers will all the time have their cellphone with them, the Digilocker app could possibly be a fast and helpful substitute for the unique passport paperwork.
“We are also working towards rolling out e-passports for the citizens that are designed to increase security, making it more difficult to tamper with the data recorded on a passport, thereby limiting the chances of fraud,” Muraleedharan stated at an occasion.

What is Digilocker?
Digilocker is an utility obtainable for smartphones that gives you to combine your Aadhaar account with the app, permitting you to tug and save essential paperwork related together with your social ID. These can then be produced and proven at will, at any time when and wherever customers require them. Digilocker helps a spread of paperwork, from customers’ class X mark sheets to their Driving Licenses.
Digilocker additionally turned an official different to the bodily Driving License card again in September 2019, permitting customers to indicate their license through the app as an alternative of the unique card. Now, with the addition of passports within the combine, Digilocker could possibly be essential for frequent worldwide travellers who might use the app to keep away from any passport-related problems abroad.