Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Education; Policies and interventions & GS-III – Sci & Tech
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The Ministry of Education has decided to link the Online Teacher Pupil Registration Management System (OTPRMS) Certificates with DigiLocker.
Objective: To ensure hassle free access to verified OTPRMS Certificates
Key takeaways
The issued certificates will automatically be transferred to DigiLocker.
The same may be traced at National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) website.
The registration fee for obtaining Certificates has been waived off.
This will enable all stakeholders across India to be digitally empowered facilitating ease of doing business.
Important value additions
DigiLocker
DigiLocker is a flagship initiative of Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) under Digital India Corporation (DIC).
Aim: ‘Digital Empowerment’ of citizens by providing access to authentic digital documents to citizen’s digital document wallet.
The issued documents in DigiLocker system are deemed to be at par with original physical documents as per Rule 9A of the Information Technology Rules, 2016
