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The Indian Railways can now access candidates’ documents faster

New Delhi:
The Indian Railways will accept candidate details from records in their DigiLocker accounts when they apply for railway jobs, thus reducing recruitment time from 18 to 24 months to less than six months, according to a report by Economic Times.

Here’s your 5-point cheatsheet to this big story

  1. DigiLocker is a secure cloud-based platform for storage, sharing and verification of documents and certificates. Documents stored in DigiLocker and verified by the cloud-based system via government records are “deemed to be at par with original, physical documents” under India’s law.

  2. The Indian Railways can now access candidates’ documents faster – an important step in the recruitment process, where lakhs of candidates apply for various roles. Since DigiLocker documents are pulled electronically from the government’s records, chances of fraud are low.

  3. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had told parliament the railways conducted two big exams, where 2.37 crore candidates turned up. Of this, the railways hired 1.3 lakh. The scale of the exams and the variety of posts had necessitated the search for a more efficient method.

  4. The DigiLocker integration to the hiring process will help simplify the complex and long recruitment process. Recruitment in ‘Group C’ posts in the Indian Railways attract a massive number of candidates, who see job security and stable pay.

  5. Indian Railways and other agencies that accept DigiLocker documents save a lot in administrative overhead by minimising paper use, and curtailing the verification process.



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Delhi has the highest proportion of Aadhaar-linked DigiLocker sign ups in India, with an estimated 29.38% of the population signed up on the service, according to an analysis of data released by the government, read with an estimate based on 2026 population projections by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which peg India’s current population at 142.59 crore. 

Overall, 14.06% of Indians — 20.05 crore individuals — have registered on DigiLocker and linked their Aadhaar with the service. DigiLocker allows Indians to display ID proofs digitally and store and retrieve other personal documents, such as school examination certificates, college degrees, vehicle registrations, etc. The State and Union Territory wise breakup was provided by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday in response to a Rajya Sabha query. 

Ladakh has the poorest penetration among all States and Union Territories, with only 5,403 of an estimated 3.05 lakh population registered on DigiLocker, amounting to 1.77% of the population. Other States with fewer than 10% of the population enrolled on DigiLocker with Aadhaar include 0Meghalaya (5.53%), Nagaland (6.1%), Mizoram (6.94%), Bihar (8.3%), and Odisha (9.88%). 

The States with the highest coverage other than Delhi are Chandigarh (28.82%), Karnataka (27.74%), Goa (20.9%), Haryana (20.08%), Maharashtra (19.9%), Himachal Pradesh (19.68%), and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (19.27%). Tamil Nadu has a DigiLocker–Aadhaar penetration of 13.25%. 



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