Railways reported that the national transporter, now on, accepts soft copies of Aadhaar and driving licence provided they are in your DigiLocker, sources reported. DigiLocker is a digital storage service operated by the government that help citizens to store certain official documents on the cloud. Railways have sent a missive to all zonal principal chief commercial managers that these two identity proofs on such service will be accepted as valid proof of identity of a passenger.
“If a passenger shows Aadhaar or driving licence from the ‘issued documents’ section by logging into his DigiLocker account, the same should be considered as valid proof of identity,” a railway order as saying.
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Last year, the Ministry of Railways had permitted Aadhaar (Aadhaar card on the mobile app launched by UIDAI) as one of the prescribed proofs of identity for rail travel in any reserved class. For showing Aadhaar, the person has to open the app and enter his/ her password to show the digital Aadhaar Card.
DigiLockers help you consolidate all your important documents at one place. You just need to have an Aadhaar card linked to your cell number to open a DigiLocker account.
The railway’s order said that if a “passenger shows Aadhaar or driving licence from the ‘issued documents’ section by logging into his DigiLocker account, the same should be considered as valid proof of identity”, according to a source. Railways also clarified that the documents uploaded by the passenger himself that is the documents in the ‘uploaded documents’ section will not be considered as a valid proof of identity, the report added.
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