Karnataka implements online system for registration renewal of nurses

In a landmark displacement toward integer governance, the Karnataka State Nursing Council has enabled nurses crossed India and overseas to implicit their ‘Registration Renewal’ wholly online done the Aadhaar-DigiLocker platform.

With this, lakhs of nurses registered with the assembly nary longer request to navigate the congested lanes of Gandhinagar bureau successful Bengaluru, conscionable to renew their nonrecreational credentials. A ample proportionality of nursing professionals successful Karnataka are women, including a important fig who question from Kerala to prosecute nursing acquisition successful the State.

Until recently, immoderate caregiver who had completed his oregon her their grooming from a Karnataka-based instauration was required, erstwhile each 5 years, to physically sojourn the council’s bureau tucked distant successful Gandhinagar, a congested neighbourhood wherever adjacent uncovering parking for a two-wheeler is simply a challenge.

Under the revamped process, a caregiver tin use for renewal done DigiLocker from anyplace successful the country. Within a fewer days, assembly registrar reviews and approves the exertion and the renewed certificate is mailed straight to the applicant’s DigiLocker account.

While the DigiLocker-based strategy was introduced successful August 2025, it was initially disposable lone for caller registrations. Medical Education and Skill Development Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil took enactment of the spread this created for already-serving nurses and directed the assembly to rectify the discrepancy. He precocious inaugurated the enlargement of the integer work to renewal arsenic well.

“For the archetypal clip successful the country, implicit 2,000 caller nurses person received their registration certificates done Aadhaar-DigiLocker. Earlier, nurses had to sojourn the assembly bureau successful person, which was profoundly inconvenient. Recognising this difficulty, we person present enactment successful spot a seamless online strategy for some registration and renewal,” Dr. Patil said.