Digital India Four Fundamental Citizen Services

Digital India Four Fundamental Citizen Services

Citizen is at the center for Digital India project . Serving citizens online is the objective of the project. The following services ensure that most of citizen services can be delivered online

1

Aadhaar | Resident Unique Identity  Number 

Digital India has provided each resident a unique 12 digit number called Aadhaar. It is verifiable online and anywhere and any time. Aadhaar is a cradle to grave resident identity number. It is given to the resident after collection of demographic and biometric features and subjecting it to deduplication to establish the resident's uniqueness.  As of now more than 1.3 billion Indian residents have been given Aadhaar numbers.

2

Digilocker 

Digilocker is a cloud based resident document management system.  It is a platform for issuance and verification of documents and certificates. A resident can create a Digilocker account and get it linked with Aadhaar number. Government documents and personal records are directly issued to resident’s Digilocker accounts. A resident can share documents with other agencies and can also e_sign them. This is the foundation for paperless citizen services.

3

e-Sign

A resident can attach a legally valid electronic signature to a document and share a signed document with others. e-Sign feature is integrated into the Digilocker system and residents can esign documents within it . This overcomes the need for wet signature 

4

UPI

Unified payment interface (UPI) is a single interface to all national banks and online wallets. This enables residents to go cashless in transactions. Applications such as BHIM are built using UPI.