Circular on Issue of Digitally Signed SSC Certificates through Digilocker Portal

It is hereby informed that, under the Digital India Programme of the

Government of India, a flagship initiative known as “Digilocker" was launched

by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, GOI, in the year 2015 for "Digital

Empowerment" of the citizens by providing access to authentic digital

documents to citizen's digital document wallet.

As part of the Digitization of Secondary School Certificates (SSC), the

Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh, has registered itself as an

"Issuer" in the Digilocker Portal and has published the Digitally signed SSCc

Certificates in the Digilocker portal, initially for the Regular, Private and ASE

Stream from the years 2004-2007 and 2012-2023, which can be accessed by

the passed students from their personal Digilocker accounts. AIl the

Certificates from the years 2004-2023 will be made available in Digilocker

shortly.

The Digitally Signed SSC Issued in the Digilocker Portal is deemed to be

at par with the original physical SSC as per Rule 9A of the Information

Technology (Preservation and Retention of information by Intermediaries

providing Digilocker facilities) Rules, 2016 notified on 8th February 2017 vide

G.S.R 711(E).

All the students who have passed the SSC Public Examinations from the

year 2004 could be able to avail of this facility through the Official Website of

Digilocker viz.

https://www.digilocker.gov.in, or through the Official Digilocker

Android Application which is available in the Google Play Store. The following

prerequisites are necessary from the candidate's side i.e., from the candidate to

access his/her Digilocker SSC Certificate: