Digital India, launched on 1 July 2015, aimed to transform India into a digitally empowered society — connecting villages with broadband, moving services online and building a digital-identity stack on top of Aadhaar. Its citizen-facing flagship, DigiLocker, gives every user a cloud wallet for official documents. Users grew from a standing start to over 50 crore by 2025, holding around 950 crore documents with legal validity equal to paper.
e-Governance · Digital India
e-Governance · Digital India
Digital India, launched in 2015, set out to put government services online and give citizens a digital identity and document wallet. Its flagship, DigiLocker, lets people store and instantly verify official documents — Aadhaar, driving licences, mark sheets — with legal validity equal to paper. Registered users grew from a standing start to over 50 crore by 2025, holding around 950 crore documents. The counter shows DigiLocker users.
0 → 54 cr
DigiLocker users
~950 cr
Documents issued
138 cr
Aadhaar numbers
DigiLocker users
| Year | DigiLocker users |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 0 crore |
| 2016 | 1 crore |
| 2017 | 1 crore |
| 2018 | 2 crore |
| 2019 | 3 crore |
| 2020 | 5 crore |
| 2021 | 9 crore |
| 2022 | 14 crore |
| 2023 | 20 crore |
| 2024 | 37 crore |
| 2025 | 54 crore |
2015
0crore
DigiLocker users
20152025
Since 2015
Added
+54 crore
2015
0 crore
2025
54 crore
Why it matters Digital public infrastructure cuts paperwork, corruption and delay — a verification that once took days now takes minutes — and underpins everything from banking to welfare delivery.
- DigiLocker users: 0 → ~54 crore (2015→2025)
- ~950 crore documents issued; part of the Digital India stack
- Source: Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY)
History
Notable projects
DigiLocker is one layer of the wider 'India Stack'. Alongside it sit Aadhaar (138 crore digital IDs), UMANG (1,600+ government services in one app), DIKSHA (the world's largest education platform), and e-KYC that made opening a bank account a paperless, minutes-long task. Together these have saved thousands of crores in administrative costs and reduced fraud.
How it works
Digital India works by moving government services online and giving every citizen a verified digital identity and paperless document wallet. Through DigiLocker, people store and share official documents — licences, certificates, mark-sheets — legally valid without a printout; the UMANG app bundles hundreds of services into one; and village-level Common Service Centres bring these online services to people not yet online themselves.
Outlook
The goal is a citizen who rarely needs paper or a counter. Next come wider 5G and fibre to villages under BharatNet, more services behind a single sign-on, stronger data protection under the new DPDP law, and AI-assisted delivery in local languages — while closing the rural internet gap (still about 49% rural vs 74% urban) that leaves many offline.
The road ahead
The next step is closing the digital divide — rural internet (~49%) still trails urban (~74%), so reaching older, poorer and less-literate citizens, with strong data-protection safeguards, is the ongoing work.
By the numbers
0 → ~54 crore DigiLocker users (2015→2025). ~950 crore documents. 138 crore Aadhaar IDs. Part of the 'India Stack'. Sources: MeitY, PIB.
Source: MeitY — DigiLocker registered users (crore), 2015–2025.