AKTU students to keep their documents in digital locker

In another step towards a digital India, APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University is all set to provide digital lockers to all its students where all university documents of the students like mark sheets, degrees etc will be available digitally.

Digital locker is one of the key initiatives under the Digital India programme in which an external website opens in a new window. Digital locker was aimed at minimising the usage of physical documents and enabled sharing of e-documents across agencies, said AKTU vice chancellor Vinay Pathak.

With the help of this portal, the sharing of e-documents will be done through registered repositories, thereby ensuring authenticity of the documents online. It could be linked with Aadhar UAID number. It would minimise the use of physical documents and thereby eliminate usage of fake documents, Pathak added.

Talking about the benefits of digital locker, Pathak said, “It will reduce administrative and departmental work and will make it possible for the students to access the documents at anytime and from anywhere in the world.”

To access e-documents, students will be given URI (Uniform Resource Indicator). The URI is a link to the e-document uploaded by an issuer in a repository. The gateway will identify the address of the repository where the e-document is stored based on the URI and will fetch the e-document from that repository.