V Muraleedharan, Union Minister of State for ExternalAffairs on Friday inaugurates a DigiLocker service for Passport Seva. Accordingto reports, now by using the DigitLocker service of the Government of India,any applicant can apply for passport related services from across India.
The press release by the Ministry of External Affairsstated, "With the launch of this new scheme, applicants applying forpassport services can provide link to their specific documents uploaded in the DigiLocker.This would enable citizens to submit various documents required for PassportServices through DigiLocker in a paperless mode. They are not required to carrythe original documents."
Launched as a key initiative under Digital India program,it provides citizens a shareable private space on a public cloud. Alldocuments, links certificates are available on this platform.
"Targeted at paperless governance, DigiLocker is aplatform for issuance and verification of documents/ certificates in a digitalway, thus eliminating the use of physical documents. Further, once passportsare also uploaded in DigiLocker, details would be easily accessible toauthorized users from any location, which would be useful especially in case ofloss of passport," the release further added.
The ministry further added, "The Ministry plans toroll out ePassport for citizens, which will increase security and improvefacilitation of immigration processes at foreign airports. In the upcomingPassport Seva Programme V2.0, the use of emerging technologies such asArtificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Chat-Bot, Analytics, RoboticProcess Automation (RPA), etc. will help ease the citizen experience andexpeditious service delivery."