About MeriPehchaan MeriPehchaan – National Single Sign-On (NSSO) is a user authentication service in which a single set of credentials provide access to multiple online applications or services. This offers major benefits for both users and application administrators. One citizen login for accessing multiple public services from various departments. For users, it eliminates the need to repeatedly prove their identities to different applications and hold different credentials for each application and also helps identify the real applications as opposed to fake ones. To the application owner it helps save time, effort and cost to build the authentication systems for every service independently. It is an extensive collaboration of the three mainstream SSO platforms Jan Parichay, e-Pramaan, and DigiLocker. MeriPehchaan authenticates the user based on multiple authentication parameters like username, mobile number, Aadhaar, PAN, etc. No more multiple logins—just one secure gateway to all your digital needs. Single Sign-On SSO is a centralized session and user authentication service in which a set of login credentials can be used to access multiple applications during the same session. The service helps in providing a seamless user experience by eliminating the need of proving the user identity to different applications. Benefits of using MeriPehchaan The basic objective of MeriPehchaan is to eliminate individual & repetitive sign-on procedures by centralizing user authentication and identity management at a central identity provider. It increases user productivity on a national level as its intuitive interface allows better user mobility and provides seamless access to multiple services and applications by authenticating just once. How one can join MeriPehchaan? MeriPehchaan is a Collaboration of 3 national level SSO, so a user may register on any of the three mainstream SSO platforms - DigiLocker, e-Pramaan, JanParichay. The citizen may register by providing a Mobile number, Name, and Gender to create credentials i.e. username and password. User may also perform eKYC using Aadhaar and PAN. Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) Implementing Agencies Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) Digital India Corporation National Informatics Centre (NIC) Web Portal of MeriPehchaan