How to upload documents in DigiLocker, know every step

DigiLocker is a cloud storage service for documents that are issued by the Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) under Digital India Corporation (DIC). It uses your Aadhaar card for the identification process and you can save your documents in digital form and use them anytime. Provided that you have an internet connection available at that time. These digital documents are considered just like the originals and have also been declared valid in Railways, Traffic Police and Passport Services. Now let us tell you step by step how you can upload your documents in DigiLocker:-

DigiLocker can contain issued as well as uploaded documents. Issued documents are e-documents that are issued by government agencies to an individual directly from the original source. These documents are kept as URLs in the issued documents section. uploaded documents are uploaded by the user. These can contain .pdf, .jpeg, and .png files up to 10MB in size.

How To Upload Documents To DigiLocker via website

First of all you go to DigiLocker website and click on Sign Up in the right upper corner.
Now you will be asked to fill your full name, date of birth, gender, mobile number, email ID and Aadhaar number. You will also need to set a 6-digit PIN which will be your password. After that you have to click on the Submit button.

After that an OTP will be sent to your registered number.
After filling the OTP you have to click on Submit.
After this you are asked to fill in a username. After filling it, you click on Submit and your account is created here.

Now you will see the DigiLocker homepage directly.
Here you have to click on Uploaded Documents which is on the left side of the page.
Here you click on Upload.
Select whatever file you want to upload from the computer and then click on Open. You can also select more than one file.
Now you can see this fine in the Uploaded Documents section.

You can also select the document type for the uploaded file. Next to the file you get the Select Doc Type option. Click on it and it will show you a list such as electricity bill, dependency certificate, integrated certificate, identification certificate, and many more options.

How to upload documents to DigiLocker via app

Sign in to DigiLocker app.
On the dashboard, click on the burger menu on the upper left.
Select Upload Documents.
Now click on the upload button which is above the menu button.
You are now asked to give the app permissions to your files.
Now from other apps you can select the file or content you want to upload.

After selecting the files, you go to your phone's storage through the app itself. From here you can find and select the file and then click on Upload.
The content of the second app opens your phone's default browser file.