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How DigiLocker moves a document from its issuer to a verifier
India reported 5,437 document types and services in DigiLocker by July 2026. The platform’s figures count the breadth of the catalogue, how many people registered and how often people accessed documents, each on its own basis.
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The two bars show document types or services reported by the ministry on 31 July 2026.
The catalogue includes many state records
The ministry counted 661 central government document types or services and 4,776 state ones on 31 July 2026. State entries accounted for about 88% of the 5,437 catalogue total. The figure measures what the platform lists, irrespective of how often a particular service is used. Source 1
Issuers supply records from their own repositories
The platform’s issuer documentation says participating institutions maintain their certificates and documents in their own repositories. They can supply a reference to an issued record for the user’s DigiLocker. Academic marksheets and government licences illustrate two kinds of record that can be delivered through issuers. Source 3 Source 4
An uploaded scan has different provenance
DigiLocker’s FAQ distinguishes documents originating at participating issuers from files a user uploads. Both can be stored, but an issued entry carries a link to the original institutional record. A receiving organisation’s verification workflow can rely on that connection when the user authorises access. Source 4 Source 3
Issuance and access figures use different periods
The government’s overview reports more than 934 crore documents issued by 31 July 2026. Its parliamentary reply reports about 72.86 crore access transactions over the previous three years. The issuance total and the access count describe different activities over different periods, so dividing one by the other would misstate usage. Source 2 Source 1